The two names don't look much alike, but "Auschwitz" is a reasonably good German phonetic rendering of "Oswiecim" [OSH-VyECH-eem], the Polish town where the Auschwitz-Birkenau camps were located.
513 posted on 11/16/2006 9:00:46 PM PST by T'wit
("Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys"-PJ)
