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auschwitz

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for auschwitz.

Editorial note

The first half of the book describes, in clinical detail (Frankl was a psychiatrist) the details of daily life in Auschwitz and other Nazi camps.

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Quick take

A former concentration camp in what is now Poland; used metonymically for Nazi evil, the Holocaust.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of auschwitz gathered in one view.

noun

A former concentration camp in what is now Poland; used metonymically for Nazi evil, the Holocaust.

noun

A city in Poland, also called Oświęcim.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for auschwitz.

noun

A former concentration camp in what is now Poland; used metonymically for Nazi evil, the Holocaust.

noun

A city in Poland, also called Oświęcim.

Example sentences

1

The first half of the book describes, in clinical detail (Frankl was a psychiatrist) the details of daily life in Auschwitz and other Nazi camps.

2

Back to your comment, yes Auschwitz outrages us, deservingly so, but this state of affairs has a lot to do with the fact that the perpetrators of Auschwitz lost.

3

Otherwise you absolve them morally of anything their nation requires of them: hello Auschwitz guards.

4

They even speculated that the stamped forms from Auschwitz III were actually punched at the massive Hollerith service at Mauthausen concentration camp.

5

Thirty-five intermarried Jews that had already been sent to Auschwitz were also returned.

6

Much more responsible than this Auschwitz guard, since we have more freedom to act effectively.

7

Also look into the work of David Cole who was responsible for unearthing the now mainstream fact that the supposed gas chambers in Auschwitz are post-war reconstructions.

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It's easy to say that the world kept their eyes shut, but even Jews on train cars to Auschwitz didn't know they were going to an extermination camp.

9

For all your hatred of revisionists, you and I should be thankful that we know more accurate death tolls for Majdanek, Auschwitz and the Reinhardt Action camps because of them.

Quote examples

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The historian Hermann Langbein, who survived Auschwitz and later wrote the authoritative "Men and women at Auschwitz", showed that her ideas didn't match the facts.

2

In the epilogue one of his books (maybe "the drowned and the saved"?), Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi describes giving a talk to a group of schoolchildren.

3

TIL, "In fact, the famous five and six-digit number tattooed on the arms of Auschwitz inmates began as a punch card system identification number."

4

I am fully cognizant of the "I was just the accountant at Auschwitz" counter argument.

Proper noun examples

1

Extermination camps like Auschwitz-Birkenau was built in connection with the concentration camp Auschwitz, so it would have been impossible to bomb without killing camp prisoners.

2

One boy asked him to describe the layout of the camp, and then described how he would have escaped if he had been in Auschwitz.

3

Indeed, even the Farben Hollerith documents had been identified some time ago at Auschwitz, but were not understood as IBM printouts.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use auschwitz in a sentence?

The first half of the book describes, in clinical detail (Frankl was a psychiatrist) the details of daily life in Auschwitz and other Nazi camps.

What does auschwitz mean?

A former concentration camp in what is now Poland; used metonymically for Nazi evil, the Holocaust.

What part of speech is auschwitz?

auschwitz is commonly used as noun.