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- proper noun A city in Poland, also called
Oświęcim . - proper noun A
concentration camp in what is nowPoland ; used metonymically forNazi evil, theHolocaust .
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- noun a Nazi concentration camp for Jews in southwestern Poland during World War II
Etymologies
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Jacek Bednarczyk/European Pressphoto Agency MARKING AUSCHWITZ: Piotr Cywinski, director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum, laid a wreath at the crematorium furnace during ceremonies marking the 64th anniversary of the liberation of the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz in Oswiecim, Poland, Tuesday.
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What I discovered in Auschwitz is the human condition, the end point of a great adventure, where the European traveler arrived after his two-thousand-year-old moral and cultural history.
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Vrba felt that if the Hungarian Jews knew about the fate that awaited them in Auschwitz they would rise up and resist.
Reviews 2010
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Vrba felt that if the Hungarian Jews knew about the fate that awaited them in Auschwitz they would rise up and resist.
theBookmark 2010
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Vrba felt that if the Hungarian Jews knew about the fate that awaited them in Auschwitz they would rise up and resist.
Members 2010
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He spent nearly two years in Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II (Birkenau), adjoining camps whose outer perimeters met and were separated by a railway line.
Reviews 2010
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Vrba felt that if the Hungarian Jews knew about the fate that awaited them in Auschwitz they would rise up and resist.
Chapter News 2010
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He spent nearly two years in Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II (Birkenau), adjoining camps whose outer perimeters met and were separated by a railway line.
Chapter News 2010
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In the final frame of the film, he was disclosed weeping before a memorial in Auschwitz to dead ancestors who, until that moment, he had never known he'd had.
Howard Jacobson offers a contrary voice in the arts Nick Cohen 2010
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He spent nearly two years in Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II (Birkenau), adjoining camps whose outer perimeters met and were separated by a railway line.
theBookmark 2010
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