Auschwitz

[ oush-vits ]

noun

1. a town in SW Poland: site of Nazi concentration camp during World War II.

Auschwitz

/ ˈauʃvɪts /

noun

1. an industrial town in S Poland; site of a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. Pop: 40 686 (2007 est) Polish nameOświęcim

Auschwitz

1. An infamous concentration camp established by the Nazis in Poland . ( See Holocaust .)

Example Sentences

The question really is not whether the football players knew what Auschwitz was.

From Washington Post

In an open letter to the team, a state lawmaker who played football in high school and college pointed to a 2020 survey that found 35 percent of Massachusetts residents under the age of 40 were uncertain about the meaning of Auschwitz.

From Washington Post

The book drew on interviews with Rena Kornreich, who was on that first transport from Slovakia, detailing the experiences she and her sister Danka had at Auschwitz.

From Time

At first, the female Auschwitz survivors I’ve interviewed said they’d never heard of any such thing.

From No Straight News

Eventually, however, after I returned to the question several times via different topics, a few women admitted to hearing that a handful mothers who arrived in Auschwitz with small children did indeed try to hide to save their own lives.

From No Straight News

At age 15, Martin Greenfield was sent to Auschwitz by the Nazis and separated from his family forever.

From The Daily Beast

And you say that Auschwitz, that experience, would tell people who they were.

From The Daily Beast

One of the memorable phrases in the novel is the idea that Auschwitz gives you a picture of your soul.

From The Daily Beast

Even in the Pac Man arcades — perhaps especially there — he was ruminating about Auschwitz.

From The Daily Beast

Nothing seemed so right then as to wrap myself in the Israeli flag marching between Auschwitz and Birkenau.

From The Daily Beast

Politics after Auschwitz was not meant to become yet another instance of pettifogging.

From Project Gutenberg