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Auschwitz

[oush-vits]

noun

  1. a town in SW Poland: site of Nazi concentration camp during World War II.



Auschwitz

/ ˈʃɪٲ /

noun

  1. Polish name: śɾę.an industrial town in S Poland; site of a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. Pop: 40 686 (2007 est)

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Auschwitz

  1. An infamous concentration camp established by the Nazis in Poland. (See Holocaust.)

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News reports proclaimed it the “Mexican Auschwitz,” an apparent cartel killing ground.

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He said Holocaust history was more commonly linked to places such as the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp, and he added: "You don't think about Wolverhampton and the Jewish refugees who fled there."

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The “Mexican Auschwitz,” as it has been dubbed, became a national scandal that raged for weeks.

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Other camps further east, like the death camps of Treblinka, Sobibor and Auschwitz, had either been destroyed by the Germans to hide their crimes in the face of Soviet advances or emptied of their inmates.

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Headlines called the ranch an “extermination camp,” home to underground “crematoria and, even, the “Mexican Auschwitz.”

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