Auschwitz

[oush-vits]

noun

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

Auschwitz

/ ˈauʃvɪts /

noun

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

Auschwitz

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

Example Sentences

There are only a handful of genuine photos from inside the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War Two.

From BBC

"I felt threatened and preyed upon.... even the sight of a cop or a cop car... it's like an Auschwitz survivor seeing a Nazi soldier," Freeman said, court documents show.

From BBC

These chilling figures unravel the brutal truths of modern warfare, a sickening continuation of the horrors we dared to believe had been consigned to history’s darkest pages, alongside Auschwitz and Hiroshima.

From Salon

The facility, dubbed “Alligator Auschwitz” by critics, is a 3,000-bed tent city and prison in the Everglades.

From Salon

Drawing upon the lessons of history and the radical value of critical education, the Foro de Sevilla collective writes, “Auschwitz was much more than a concentration camp, it was a laboratory of dehumanization.”

From Salon