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Auschwitz

/ˈɔʃwɪts/

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What does Auschwitz mean?

proper noun

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.

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/ˈɔʃwɪts/

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/ˈaʊʃwɪts/

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