Auschwitz

English

Etymology

From German Auschwitz, the German name for the town known in Polish as Oświęcim, which the concentration camp was near.

Old Market Square in Oświęcim.
The main entrance to extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈaʊ̯ʃ.vɪts/, /ˈaʊ̯ʃ.wɪts/

Proper noun

Auschwitz

  1. A city in Poland, also called Oświęcim.
  2. A former concentration camp in what is now Poland; used metonymically for Nazi evil, the Holocaust.

Translations

German

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈʔaʊ̯ʃvɪts/
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Proper noun

Auschwitz

  1. Auschwitz; Oświęcim (town)
  2. the former concentration camp located near Auschwitz

Portuguese

Proper noun

Auschwitz f

  1. Auschwitz; Oświęcim (a town in Lesser Poland, Poland)

Proper noun

Auschwitz m

  1. Auschwitz (Nazi concentration camp in the town of Auschwitz)

Spanish

Proper noun

Auschwitz m

  1. Auschwitz (city in Poland)
  2. Auschwitz (concentration camp)
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