Auschwitz.
Synonym of Oświęcim, A city in Poland.
Meaning & usage
Synonym of Oświęcim, A city in Poland.
A former German concentration and extermination camp in what is now Poland; used metonymically for Nazi evil, the Holocaust.
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from German Auschwitz, the German name for the town known in Polish as Oświęcim, which the concentration camp was near.
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