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So they didn't let anybody else off. I can't live like this, I'm finished. Auschwitz was easy.
Witold Pilecki

Meaning of "Auschwitz" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD AUSCHWITZ

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PRONUNCIATION OF AUSCHWITZ

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AUSCHWITZ

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Auschwitz is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES AUSCHWITZ MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Auschwitz

Auschwitz concentration camp

Auschwitz concentration camp (German: Konzentrationslager Auschwitz ( listen)) was a network of concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II. It consisted of Auschwitz I (the original camp), Auschwitz II–Birkenau (a combination concentration / extermination camp), Auschwitz III–Monowitz (a labor camp to staff an IG Farben factory), and 45 satellite camps. Auschwitz I was first constructed to hold Polish political prisoners, who began to arrive in May 1940. The first extermination of prisoners took place in September 1941, and Auschwitz II–Birkenau went on to become a major site of the Nazi "Final Solution to the Jewish question". From early 1942 until late 1944, transport trains delivered Jews to the camp's gas chambers from all over German-occupied Europe, where they were killed with the pesticide Zyklon B. At least 1.1 million prisoners died at Auschwitz, around 90 percent of them Jewish; approximately 1 in 6 Jews killed in the Holocaust died at the camp.

Definition of Auschwitz in the English dictionary

The definition of Auschwitz in the dictionary is an industrial town in S Poland; site of a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. Pop: 40 686 Polish name: Oświęcim.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AUSCHWITZ

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WORDS THAT END LIKE AUSCHWITZ

Austerlitz
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Chemnitz
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Gleiwitz
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Kollwitz
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Synonyms and antonyms of Auschwitz in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Auschwitz» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AUSCHWITZ

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The translations of Auschwitz from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Auschwitz» in English.

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Auschwitz
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أوشفيتز
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Освенцим
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Auschwitz
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Auschwitz
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アウシュビッツ
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아우슈비츠
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Auschwitz
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Auschwitz
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ஆஸ்விட்ச்
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आउश्वित्झ
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Auschwitz
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Auschwitz
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Auschwitz
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Освенцим
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Trends of use of Auschwitz

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AUSCHWITZ»

The term «Auschwitz» is quite widely used and occupies the 28.670 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AUSCHWITZ» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Auschwitz

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10 QUOTES WITH «AUSCHWITZ»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Auschwitz.
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Edward Bond
Auschwitz is a place in which tragedy cannot occur.
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Edward Bond
Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.
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Billy Graham
Auschwitz stands as a tragic reminder of the terrible potential man has for violence and inhumanity.
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David Irving
I made a mistake when I said there were no gas chambers at Auschwitz.
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Meir Kahane
I know that elections must be limited only to those who understand that the Arabs are the deadly enemy of the Jewish state, who would bring on us a slow Auschwitz - not with gas, but with knives and hatchets.
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Peter T. King
And if the imam and the Muslim leadership in that community is so intent on building bridges, then they should voluntarily move the mosque away from ground zero and move it whether it's uptown or somewhere else, but move it away from that area, the same as the pope directed the Carmelite nuns to move a convent away from Auschwitz.
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Witold Pilecki
So they didn't let anybody else off. I can't live like this, I'm finished. Auschwitz was easy.
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Witold Pilecki
During the first 3 years at Auschwitz, 2 million people died; over the next 2 years - 3 million.
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Julie Salamon
My parents came to this country after World War II, Jews from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschwitz and Dachau. They settled with my sister in rural Ohio in the 1950s, where my dad became the town doctor and I was born.
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Lea Salonga
The thing about World War II is that everyone knows about the concentration camps in Europe - in Nazi Germany and Poland and Auschwitz and the other camps - but, no one really talks about the camps that were here in the United States.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AUSCHWITZ»

Discover the use of Auschwitz in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Auschwitz and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account
The author details his experiences as a prisoner and doctor at Auschwitz, describing the experiments performed on Jewish victims.
Miklos Nyiszli, 2011
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Auschwitz: A New History
Auschwitz is not only the story of one singular camp where more than one million people were murdered, but also a timely reminder about the indelible human potential for committing evil.
Laurence Rees, 2005
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Survival In Auschwitz
The author describes his twenty month ordeal in the Nazi death camp.
Primo Levi, 1996
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Auschwitz
A riveting examination in words and photos of Auschwitz, from its roots as a violent market town to the concentration camps built during World War II, provides a compelling conclusion on the evolution of a deadly killing site.
Deborah Dwork, Robert Jan van Pelt, Robert Jan Pelt, 2002
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Auschwitz, 1270 to the Present
Traces the history of Auschwitz, from its roots as a violent market town to the concentration camps built during World War II, and looks at attempts to come to terms with the past
Deborah Dwork, 1996
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Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp
This learned volume is about as chilling as historiography gets.Ó ÑWalter Laqueur, The New Republic Ò. . . a vital contribution to Holocaust studies and a bulwark against forgetting.Ó ÑPublishers Weekly ÒRigorously documented, ...
Yisrael Gutman, Michael Berenbaum, 1998
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Auschwitz:
The author, who was a prisoner at Auschwitz for two years, describes her experiences, and the horrifying experiments of Dr. Josef Mengele
Sara Nomberg-Przytyk, Eli Pfefferkorn, David H. Hirsch, 1985
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Auschwitz: Voices from the Death Camp
"Examines Auschwitz, a death camp during the Holocaust, including its construction and daily workings, true accounts from prisoners of the camp and Nazi perpetrators, and how more than 1 million people were murdered there"--Provided by ...
James M. Deem, 2011
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The Man Who Broke Into Auschwitz: A True Story of World War II.
The Man Who Broke into Auschwitz is the extraordinary true story of a British soldier who marched willingly into the concentration camp, Buna-Monowitz, known as Auschwitz III.
Denis Avey, 2012
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People in Auschwitz
Hermann Langbein was allowed to know and see extraordinary things forbidden to other Auschwitz inmates.
Hermann Langbein, 2004

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AUSCHWITZ»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Auschwitz is used in the context of the following news items.
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Auschwitz-Birkenau: A Merger Of Silence And Speech
After experiencing Majdanek yesterday, I believed that Auschwitz I and II could not be more traumatic. I had become sick to my stomach at ... «The Jewish Press, Jul 15»
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The failure of humanity to learn: Reflections on Visiting Auschwitz
As I walked the grounds of Auschwitz and Auschwitz-Birkenau, I heard the silent screams of the approximately 1.1 million human souls who ... «Napa Valley Register, Jul 15»
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'Ballerina of Auschwitz' to speak at Rancho Santa Fe event
Meet Edith Eva Eger, the “Ballerina of Auschwitz,” and hear her inspirational story firsthand at a July 14 event to commemorate the 70th ... «Rancho Santa Fe Review, Jul 15»
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Sweden's green leader in second Auschwitz gaffe
UPDATED: Sweden's Deputy Prime Minister and Green Party leader Åsa Romson has stirred up a storm after she placed Auschwitz in southern ... «The Local.se, Jul 15»
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'Bookkeeper of Auschwitz' Makes Statement of Humility and Guilt at …
The man known as the "bookkeeper of Auschwitz" has offered a statement of "humility and guilt" during his trial for Holocaust crimes in ... «VICE News, Jul 15»
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Google Puts Auschwitz And Other Nazi Death Camps In Mobile …
Would you like to fight for control of Auschwitz, not to liberate it but to ... it did for sites like Auschwitz, Dachau and Sachsenhausen, according to ... «FailedMessiah.com, Jul 15»
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Shadow minister shares experience of Auschwitz visit at HET …
Shadow Foreign minister Dan Jarvis has spoken of how a recent visit to Auschwitz forced him to reflect on his experiences as a soldier in the ... «Jewish News, Jul 15»
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Clapton Composes Soundtrack For Phillipe Mora Film, Three Days …
Three Days in Auschwitz, a new documentary from acclaimed director ... Mora wrote on his website last year, "In 2010 I visited Auschwitz and ... «Where's Eric, Jul 15»
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Auschwitz Guard Expresses 'Humility and Guilt' at Trial
Defendant and former Nazi SS officer Oskar Groening, who worked at Auschwitz for nearly two years, attends his trial at the courtroom in the ... «Newsweek, Jul 15»
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Former Auschwitz guard asks God for forgiveness
BERLIN – A 94-year-old former SS sergeant who served in Auschwitz says he helped the death camp function in his role sorting cash and ... «Globalnews.ca, Jul 15»

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