What is the definition of Auschwitz?

Answer 1

There isn't an actual meaning for Auschwitz.

Auschwitz was the biggest group of Nazi camps. It included the biggest of all the Nazi extermination camps (Auschwitz II - Birkenau) and also included very harsh slave-labor camps and concentration camps.

For many, the word Auschwitz has come to symbolize the Holocaust.

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Perhaps you are asking about the plain meaning of the place-name: in German it has no particular meaning. However, the Polish name, Oswiecim means holy ...!

Answer 2

It was the biggest and most notorious of all the Nazi camps and was set up and run by the SS.

It was a complex of concentration camps and a large extermination camp located at Oswiemcim, Poland about 40 miles west of Krakow. It was in operation from May 1940 till January 1945. At the very minimum 1.1 million victims were killed there, of whom about 85% were Jews. (In the 1950s and 1960s, when the word Holocaust was not widely used, Auschwitz was sometimes treated as almost synomymous with the Holocaust).

The extermination camp was located in Auschwitz II, also called Birkenau, and the Auschwitz complex as a whole is sometimes referred to as Auschwitz-Birkenau.

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Auschwitz I was a very harsh concentration camp (forced labour camp) in Nazi occupied Poland during the World War 2. It was originally built in May 1940 as a horrific punishment camp for uncooperative Poles and to kill the Polish elite. It was set up by the SS making use of old Austro-Hungarian cavalry barracks built in a mock Alpine style. In 1941-42 it was expanded to include an extermination (death) camp and women's forced labour camp at Birkenau (also known as Auschwitz II). Monowitz (Auschwitz III) was about four miles from the main site. It was a chemicals factory - a private entreprise concentration camp owned by I-G Farben, but the guards were SS men. Altogether, Auschwitz had about 45 satellite camps.

Estimates of the numbers killed in the Auschwitz comples vary slightly. The German Wikipedia article gives the overall death toll as 1.4 million, of whom about 90% were Jews. The others killed included 'gypsies' (Roma), Soviet prisoners of war, Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals and anyone else the Nazis didn't like.

Auschwitz is now a museum. You can visit it today - it is a very sombre and saddening experience.

The Auschwitz group of camps was the biggest and it also had the highest death toll - a minimum of 1.1 million killed, of whom at least 85% were Jews. (These are cautious figures and many historians would opt for somewhat higher figures).

For more detail see the link below.

Answer 3

Auschwitz is a concentration camp which is located in south west of poland. It was the Bloodiest concentration camp during the holocaust because it killed 1.2 million jews. 1.2 million out of the 6.8million total kills

Answer 4

There were three camps by the name of Auschwitz, one, a concentration camp, another a labor camp, and a death camp.

Auschwitz Birkenua was the name of the death camp were a terrible amount of 3 500 000 Jews were sent to their death.

All of the Auschwitz concentration camps were situated outside of a small Polish Town by the name of Oswiciem.

Unfortunately I don't know as much about the other camps, but I hope this is of some help to you.

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Auschwitz was a group of 48 camps ... Most modern scholarship puts the total death toll these camps at about 1.1-1.5 million, of whom about 90% were Jews. The very high figures were discedited ages ago (and are a gift to Holocaust deniers).

Answer 5

Inhuman, horrible. Same goes to all the other extermination camps...

Answer 6

A Nazi Germany concentration camp