Oświęcim

[awsh-vyen-cheem]

noun

1. Polish name of Auschwitz.

Oświęcim

/ ɔʃˈfjɛntʃim /

noun

1. the Polish name for Auschwitz

Example Sentences

The photo from the concentration camp in Oświęcim, Poland, where 1.1 million people were murdered by the Nazis during World War II, was replaced by stock footage of barbed wire and an empty jail cell in the promo before the match and in replays.

From Washington Times

The former concentration and extermination camp is located in the town of Oświęcim in southern Poland, which during World War II was under the occupation of German forces and became a place of systematic murder of Jews, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, Roma and others targeted for elimination by Adolf Hitler and his henchmen.

From Seattle Times

The Auschwitz-Birkenau state memorial museum said Posmysz died Monday in a hospice in Oświęcim, the southern Polish town where Auschwitz was located during Nazi Germany’s wartime occupation of Poland.

From Seattle Times

The commemoration at Auschwitz-Birkenau, on the outskirts of the town of Oświęcim in southern Poland, was the culminating event in a month of global Holocaust observations.

From Los Angeles Times

Named Oświęcim, within 10 months it would host the beginnings of the camp the world would know by its infamous German rechristening: Auschwitz.

From The Guardian