Auschwitz

The question really is not whether the football players knew what Auschwitz was.
Duxbury High’s antisemitism scandal is more evidence that parents need to do better. Here’s how.|Linda K. Wertheimer|April 8, 2021|Washington Post
In an open letter to the team, a state lawmaker who played football in high school and college pointed to a 2020 survey that found 35 percent of Massachusetts residents under the age of 40 were uncertain about the meaning of Auschwitz.
Massachusetts high school football coach fired over his team’s anti-Semitic audibles|Cindy Boren|March 25, 2021|Washington Post
The book drew on interviews with Rena Kornreich, who was on that first transport from Slovakia, detailing the experiences she and her sister Danka had at Auschwitz.
How One Writer Uncovered the Lost Histories of 999 Women and Girls Who Were Sent to Auschwitz|Suyin Haynes|January 27, 2021|Time
At first, the female Auschwitz survivors I’ve interviewed said they’d never heard of any such thing.
Auschwitz: Women Used Different Survival And Sabotage Strategies Than Men At Nazi Death Camp|LGBTQ-Editor|April 19, 2020|No Straight News

Eventually, however, after I returned to the question several times via different topics, a few women admitted to hearing that a handful mothers who arrived in Auschwitz with small children did indeed try to hide to save their own lives.
Auschwitz: Women Used Different Survival And Sabotage Strategies Than Men At Nazi Death Camp|LGBTQ-Editor|April 19, 2020|No Straight News
At age 15, Martin Greenfield was sent to Auschwitz by the Nazis and separated from his family forever.
From Auschwitz to the White House: One Tailor’s American Tale|Martin Greenfield|December 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And you say that Auschwitz, that experience, would tell people who they were.
Martin Amis Talks About Nazis, Novels, and Cute Babies|Ronald K. Fried|October 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
One of the memorable phrases in the novel is the idea that Auschwitz gives you a picture of your soul.
Martin Amis Talks About Nazis, Novels, and Cute Babies|Ronald K. Fried|October 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Even in the Pac Man arcades — perhaps especially there — he was ruminating about Auschwitz.
How Hitch & Amis Discovered Evil In My House|Peter Foges|September 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Nothing seemed so right then as to wrap myself in the Israeli flag marching between Auschwitz and Birkenau.
Gaza, You're No Good For My Marriage|Josh Robin|August 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Politics after Auschwitz was not meant to become yet another instance of pettifogging.
The Civilization of Illiteracy|Mihai Nadin

British Dictionary definitions for Auschwitz

Auschwitz

/ (German ˈauʃvɪts) /

noun

an industrial town in S Poland; site of a Nazi concentration camp during World War II. Pop: 40 686 (2007 est)Polish name: Oświęcim

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Cultural definitions for Auschwitz

Auschwitz

[ (owsh-vits) ]

An infamous concentration camp established by the Nazis in Poland. (See Holocaust.)