Auschwitz
ausch·witz
noun
1.
a Nazi concentration camp for Jews in southwestern Poland during World War II
Origin
Borrowed from German Auschwitz, the German name for the town known in Polish as Oświęcim, which the concentration camp was near.
Phrases
- Alligator Auschwitz
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