Wiktionary
n. 1 A city in Poland, also called Oświęcim. 2 A former concentration camp in what is now Poland; (non-gloss definition: used metonymically for) Nazi evil, the Holocaust.
Wikipedia
Auschwitz, in English, commonly refers to the Auschwitz concentration camp complex built by Nazi Germany during World War II.
Auschwitz may also refer to:
- A former German name for the Polish town of Oświęcim, after which the concentration camp was named
- Duchy of Auschwitz, also known as Duchy of Oświęcim, a historical duchy of Silesia
- Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, a museum and memorial for the victims of the concentration camp
- Auschwitz: A Doctor's Eyewitness Account, the 1961 book by Dr. Miklos Nyiszli
- Auschwitz (film), film by director Uwe Boll
- Auschwitz: The Nazis and the 'Final Solution' (or Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State), a six-part BBC documentary about the concentration camp
Auschwitz is a 2011 German drama film directed by Uwe Boll.
Usage examples of "auschwitz".
The lukewarm morning ersatz coffee, watery evening soup, and single slice of sawdusty bread are the usual Auschwitz ration: in itself, a sentence to slow death.
The bullying Jewish kapos in Auschwitz, the Judenrat officials in Warsaw and the other cities who picked people to go on the trains, and protected their relatives and friends, are all a product of the German cruelty.
But right there is the big problem: confusion from the top down about the true mission of the Auschwitz Interest Area, these forty square kilometers of marshy farmland allotted to the Commandant's rule.
Outside he fills his lungs with the cold air of snowy Auschwitz, sweet and delicious after the nasty, rubbery, chemical smell of air filtered through a mask.
Several other camps will take some of the load, but Auschwitz is to be a main disposal center.
All the corpses must be brought back from the work site for the evening roll call, since the count of living and dead has to match the number of men who left in the morning, to establish that nobody has escaped Auschwitz except by d yingThe prisoners' band is thumping out a march, for the workers always leave and return to merry, brassy music.
In 1944, where was their all-penetrating influence, when the secret began to leak cut, and they in vain implored the Anglo-Americans to bomb Auschwitz?
The Auschwitz Interest Area of the SS spreads over some forty square kilometers of greenery and woodland, at the confluence of the Sola and the Vistula, where the Vistula begins its long meander north to Warsaw and the Baltic Sea.
As an assistant foreman to Sammy Mutterperl, with the armband of a Vorarbeiter, a leading worker, he eats and sleeps better than most Auschwitz inmates, though wretchedly enough.
His client now is the Commandant of Auschwitz, and Sergeant Major Klinger is the Commandant's deputy on the spot.
In theory Reichsfuhrer SS Himmler is the high ultimate Client, but Himmler is an unseen god in Auschwitz.
As Auschwitz goes, Mutterperl considers Klinger's a good kommando to serve in.
In 1941 the Commandant, desperate at the crazy expansion orders from Berlin, combed the countryside for builders and mechanics and put them to work at once-Jew, Pole, Czech, Croat, Rumanian it made little difference, Mutterperl among them-in conditions of housing, nourishment, and discipline that were by outside standards unspeakable, but in Auschwitz something like luxury.
For in the Central Building Board office back at the base camp, where several hundred German architects, engineers, and draftsmen work in comfort on Auschwitz's never-ending expansion plans, the word is "Give it to Klinger," when a job requires quick, visible results.
Human time and muscle are in infinite supply at Auschwitz'zero cost items.