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Noun: Auschwitz  'awsh,vits
  1. A Nazi concentration camp in southwestern Poland in use during World War II; many people were executed in gas chambers or died from disease and starvation, about 90% of them Jews
    - Auschwitz concentration camp

Type of: concentration camp, stockade

Part of: Poland, Polska, Republic of Poland

Encyclopedia: Auschwitz, Poland