Definitions for auschwitz
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1. Auschwitznoun

   a Nazi concentration camp for Jews in southwestern Poland during World War II

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1. Auschwitznoun

   A city in Poland, also called Owicim.

2. Auschwitznoun

   An infamous concentration camp in Poland, and a symbol of Nazi evil.

3. Etymology: From Auschwitz, the German name for the nearby town of Oświęcim.

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1. auschwitz

   Auschwitz concentration camp (German: Konzentrationslager Auschwitz (pronounced [kɔntsɛntʁaˈtsi̯oːnsˌlaːɡɐ ˈʔaʊʃvɪts] (listen)); also KL Auschwitz or KZ Auschwitz) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It consisted of Auschwitz I, the main camp (Stammlager) in Oświęcim; Auschwitz II-Birkenau, a concentration and extermination camp with gas chambers; Auschwitz III-Monowitz, a labor camp for the chemical conglomerate IG Farben; and dozens of subcamps. The camps became a major site of the Nazis' final solution to the Jewish question. After Germany sparked World War II by invading Poland in September 1939, the Schutzstaffel (SS) converted Auschwitz I, an army barracks, into a prisoner-of-war camp.The initial transport of political detainees to Auschwitz consisted almost solely of Poles for whom the camp was initially established. The bulk of inmates were Polish for the first two years.In May 1940, German criminals brought to the camp as functionaries, established the camp's reputation for sadism. Prisoners were beaten, tortured, and executed for the most trivial reasons. The first gassings—of Soviet and Polish prisoners—took place in block 11 of Auschwitz I around August 1941. Construction of Auschwitz II began the following month, and from 1942 until late 1944 freight trains delivered Jews from all over German-occupied Europe to its gas chambers. Of the 1.3 million people sent to Auschwitz, 1.1 million were murdered. The number of victims includes 960,000 Jews (865,000 of whom were gassed on arrival), 74,000 ethnic Poles, 21,000 Roma, 15,000 Soviet prisoners of war, and up to 15,000 other Europeans. Those not gassed were murdered via starvation, exhaustion, disease, individual executions, or beatings. Others were killed during medical experiments. At least 802 prisoners tried to escape, 144 successfully, and on 7 October 1944, two Sonderkommando units, consisting of prisoners who operated the gas chambers, launched an unsuccessful uprising. Only 789 Schutzstaffel personnel (no more than 15 percent) ever stood trial after the Holocaust ended; several were executed, including camp commandant Rudolf Höss. The Allies' failure to act on early reports of atrocities by bombing the camp or its railways remains controversial. As the Soviet Red Army approached Auschwitz in January 1945, toward the end of the war, the SS sent most of the camp's population west on a death march to camps inside Germany and Austria. Soviet troops entered the camp on 27 January 1945, a day commemorated since 2005 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In the decades after the war, survivors such as Primo Levi, Viktor Frankl, and Elie Wiesel wrote memoirs of their experiences, and the camp became a dominant symbol of the Holocaust. In 1947, Poland founded the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum on the site of Auschwitz I and II, and in 1979 it was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

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1. auschwitz

   Auschwitz, officially known as Auschwitz-Birkenau, was a complex of Nazi concentration camps and extermination camps built and operated by Nazi Germany during World War II. Located in German-occupied Poland, it was the largest and most notorious of all Nazi camps, where an estimated 1.1 million people, mainly Jews, were killed between 1940 and 1945. Now, it serves as a poignant memorial and museum.

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   The numerical value of auschwitz in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

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   The numerical value of auschwitz in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of auschwitz in a Sentence

1. Bill Hightower:

   I treasure our history – good or bad, my daughter went to Auschwitz years ago, and it radically changed her life.

2. Yoav Rossano:

   It is awaking the history, part of the family line died in Auschwitz so to see here in my region, you feel a big responsibility.

3. Christoph Heubner:

   A place like Auschwitz will continue to have visitors because they want to know what lies at the end of this, what these ideologies that are dazzlingly put before them really mean in the end.

4. George Steiner:

   We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.

5. Oskar Groening:

   The process was the same as Auschwitz I. The only difference was that there were no trucks, they all walked — some in one direction some, in another direction ... to where the crematoria and gas chambers were.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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