Towarzystwo Hokejowe Unia Oświęcim is a Polish
ice hockey
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club based in
Oświęcim
Oświęcim (; german: Auschwitz ; yi, אָשפּיצין, Oshpitzin) is a city in the Lesser Poland ( pl, Małopolska) province of southern Poland, situated southeast of Katowice, near the confluence of the Vistula (''Wisła'') and Soła rive ...
, Poland. They currently play in the
Polska Hokej Liga
The Polska Hokej Liga is the premier ice hockey league in Poland. Previously, it was known as the I Liga or Ekstraklasa from 1926 to 1999, and the Polska Liga Hokejowa from 1999 to 2013. In 2013, it was reorganized as a limited liability company ...
, the top-level ice hockey league in Poland. The team's colors are blue and white.
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History
The club was created in 1946, with the hockey section being created in 1958. From 1958 to 1999 it was called ''KS Unia Oświęcim'', and from 1999 to 2006, ''Dwory Unia Oświęcim''. Their home ice is the ''Hala Lodowa MOSiR'' which can holds 3,500 people.
In June 2020, Jewish Israeli-Canadian and Team Israel captain Eliezer Sherbatov
Eliezer "Elie" Alexeevich Sherbatov ( he, אליעזר שרבטוב; born 9 October 1991) is an Israeli-Canadian ice hockey player who plays for the Jonquière Marquis of the Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey, after having played for HC Mariupol o ...
signed a one-year contract with the team, which plays just a short walk from the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp, where one million Jews were killed by the Nazi
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s during the Holocaust
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.
Players
* Eliezer Sherbatov
Eliezer "Elie" Alexeevich Sherbatov ( he, אליעזר שרבטוב; born 9 October 1991) is an Israeli-Canadian ice hockey player who plays for the Jonquière Marquis of the Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey, after having played for HC Mariupol o ...
* Sebastian Lipinski
* Clarke Saunders
* Peter Bezuska
* Patrik Luza
* Patryk Noworyta
* Klemen Pretnar
* Jakub Saur
* Jakub Wanacki
* Miroslav Zatko
* Luka Kalan
* Gregor Klobar
* Sebastian Kowalowka
* Lukasz Krzemien
* Patryk Malicki
* Damian Piotrowicz
* Anatoli Protasenya
* Martin Przygodzki
* Andrej Themar
* Alexei Trandin
* Dariusz Wanat
Achievements
* Polish Championship:
**''Winners (8)'' : 1992, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004
**''2nd Place (8)'' : 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2005, 2020, 2022
**''3rd Place (2)'' : 2011, 2012
*Polish Cup (Ice Hockey):
**''Winners (2)'' : 2000, 2003
Season-by-season
References
External links
* (in Polish)
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Ice hockey teams in Poland
Sport in Lesser Poland Voivodeship
Sport in Oświęcim