Auschwitz

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Auschwitz

/ˈaʊʃ.vɪts/
/ˈaʊʃ.wɪts/
/ˈaʊʃ.ə.vɪts/
/ˈɔːʃ.wɪts/

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Borrowed from German Auschwitz, the German name for the town known in Polish as Oświęcim, which the concentration camp was near.

proper noun

Synonym of Oświęcim, A city in Poland.
Similar: Oświęcim, A city in Poland
A former German concentration and extermination camp in what is now Poland; used metonymically for Nazi evil, the Holocaust. Portnoy said in posts on social media that in an initial conversation Sunday the customer took 100% responsibility for his actions with his friend and agreed to take a learning trip to Auschwitz in Poland.

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Closest in meaning: vichy, birkenau, oswiecim, deathcamp, kz, lager, hell, inferno, crematorium, opole, augustów, jaworzno, wschowa, będzin, bydgoszcz, rzeszów

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@misc{auschwitz_2026,
  title = {Auschwitz},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/auschwitz},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}