Auschwitz

Meaning

Proper Noun

city Poland (country), also called Oświęcim.
A former concentration camp in what is now Poland; Nazi evil, the Holocaust.

Origin

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

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