Oświęcim
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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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
She disembarked with nearly 100 other Jewish people, including her parents and her seven siblings, who had made the three-day, 250-mile trip from their hometown of Munkács – in then Czechoslovakia, where they had spent weeks imprisoned in the basement of a brick factory – to the concentration and extermination camp, located in the suburbs of the city of Oświęcim, in the southern part of German-occupied Poland.
From The Guardian
A 92-year-old woman who worked as a radio operator at Auschwitz has been ruled as unfit to stand trial on charges that she was an accessory to the murder of 260,000 at the Nazi death camp in Oświęcim, Poland.
From The Guardian
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