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

Headlines called the ranch an “extermination camp,” home to underground “crematoria and, even, the “Mexican Auschwitz.”

From Los Angeles Times

He drew international attention on the 75th anniversary of Auschwitz's liberation in 2020, when he remarked Auschwitz "did not fall from the sky" and warned it could happen again.

From BBC

Jewish women, brought from Auschwitz, were used for slave labour here to make parts for aeroplanes.

From BBC

Under an enormous, white tent that covered the death camp entrance, the director of the Auschwitz museum, Piotr Cywinski, issued a plea to protect the memory of what had happened, as the survivors died out.

From BBC

But what it became by 1942 is the Auschwitz that sits in our shared memory, for by now it was an extermination camp, whose main purpose was mass murder.

From BBC