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Auschwitz
(redirected from Auschwitz-Birkenau)

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Ausch·witz  (oushvts)
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Auschwitz (German) [ˈauʃvɪts]
n
(Placename) an industrial town in S Poland; site of a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. Pop.: 45 400 (latest est.) Polish name Oświȩcim
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Noun1.Auschwitz - a Nazi concentration camp for Jews in southwestern Poland during World War II
Poland, Polska, Republic of Poland - a republic in central Europe; the invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 started World War II


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The three teenagers were among about 10,000 people from around the world, most of them Jewish, who came to Poland to take part in the March of the Living on May 1, an annual event at the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau that honors the memory of some 6 million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.
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About 10,000 people from around the world, mostly Jewish, took part in the March of the Living on Thursday, an annual event at the former Nazi death camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau that honors the memory of some 6 million Jews who perished in the Holocaust.
Mideastern man briefly holds three Jews captive in Warsaw claiming he ... by RYAN LUCAS / AP Features
As the Nazis stepped up their movement of Jews from a transit camp called Terezin to the death camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Marianka Zadikow was given a precious gift: a stack of office paper.
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