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Oświęcim (ôshvyĕN`chēm), Ger. Auschwitz, town (1992 est. pop. 45,100), Małopolskie prov., SE Poland. It is a railway junction and industrial center producing chemicals, leather, and agricultural implements. There are coal deposits in the vicinity. In World War II the Germans organized a concentration camp concentration camp, a detention site outside the normal prison system created for military or political purposes to confine, terrorize, and, in some cases, kill civilians.
..... Click the link for more information. system there, consisting of 3 main and 30 forced-labor camps. At the Brzezinka (Ger. Birkenau) extermination camp as many as 4,000,000 prisoners, mostly Jews, were killed. Oświęcim (German, Auschwitz), a city in southern Poland, at the confluence of the Vistula and Sola rivers, in Bielsko Województwo. Population, 41,000 (1972). The city has a chemical plant for organic synthesis, food-processing enterprises, and a leather factory. There is a museum on the site of the former fascist German concentration camp of Auschwitz. Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | Following the German invasion of Poland in September 1939, Oswiecim was annexed by Nazi Germany and renamed Auschwitz, the town's German name. The snow only added to the bleakness of what was to come, as Lucy Roberts, 17, from New Heys School in Allerton commented, during the hour-long coach journey to Oswiecim - or Auschwitz in Ger man. Accompanied by his wife, Barak visited part of the museum devoted to the Holocaust as well as buildings housing the former Auschwitz camp's infamous crematoria and gas chambers, said a statement from the museum in Oswiecim, southern Poland. |
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