Auschwitz
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8.8
- proper noun
- /ˈɔːʃvɪts/
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Auschwitz
- And from there sent to the concentration camp in Auschwitz.
- Auschwitz concentration camp
- Auschwitz-Birkenau
- liberation of Auschwitz
So his two brothers go to Auschwitz, die there.
- So his two brothers go to Auschwitz, die there.
- So Rudolf Verba was in Auschwitz as a teenager.
- Then she told me when I was in Auschwitz, I wasn't the prisoner.
- So people say there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz, and that's Holocaust denial.
- Maidonic and Auschwitz were concentration camps and death camps.
- And she gave us a tour of her life at Auschwitz.
- She said to me, Doctor Chasji, I have lived in Auschwitz.
- It's about one day in the in the extermination camp of Auschwitz.
- The the the father got swept up right when the war began and ended up in Auschwitz and then on a death March, etcetera.
- I heard a programme the other night on the BBC of a woman who survived Auschwitz because she joined the orchestra.
- And last week I had the huge honour but considerable shock of going myself to Auschwitz, Birkenau.
- And all of a sudden I go, I wouldn't be standing here if Rob's father didn't survive Auschwitz.
- And and, you know, I've got this friend who who came out of Auschwitz and had at least one member of the family die there.
- And once the Jews started rounded up, they were indeed caught up in all of that and, and sent to Auschwitz, Birkenau.
- You know, it was Gordon Brown who pioneered government funding of your world leading program, Lessons from Auschwitz.
- OK, Now, for those who don't know Auschwitz, OK, that's not a Russian sausage, all right?
- And the words I think about everyday, Jay, are when she said to me, Rongan, listen, I have lived through Auschwitz.
- The Holocaust, the genocide against the Jews, the shipping of thousands of people a day being shipped in trains to Auschwitz.
- The the mechanical railroad car that took twos to Auschwitz is actually there.
Examples
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After four days on a train, she arrived at Auschwitz in Nazi-occupied Poland.
Academic text (2013) -
I heard a programme the other night on the BBC of a woman who survived Auschwitz because she joined the orchestra.
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So his two brothers go to Auschwitz, die there.
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Four days later, he was shipped to Auschwitz, where they killed him right away.
Fiction book (1997) -
A train full of people destined for Auschwitz pulls away from the platform.
Fiction book (1993) -
Simon: This is Charlotte Kerjesz, a survivor of Auschwitz, a death camp in Poland.
Fiction book (1998) -
The last known report about him came from a survivor of Auschwitz-Birkenau who said Vari had died there.
Fiction book (2001) -
The incomparable horror of Auschwitz has given way to Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq.
Academic text (2012) -
Let me ask you about Josef Mengele, the notorious Nazi doctor at Auschwitz.
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After enduring a long journey, she arrived at Auschwitz, a place of unimaginable horror during World War II.
Synonyms
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5.6
A place where many people are imprisoned without trial in harsh, crowded conditions
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8.4
A prison camp where people are kept and killed, often used by Nazi Germany in World War II
A camp in southwest Poland where Nazis killed many people, mostly Jewish people, during World War II
Compounds
A camp in southwest Poland where Nazis killed many people, mostly Jewish people, during World War II
Surface Forms
Etymology
Auschwitz is the German form of the Polish place name Oświęcim, the town where the camp stood. So Auschwitz is simply the name of that place, and it now refers to the Nazi camp there where many people were imprisoned and killed.