2 a turning away from a course or standard any departure from the modernist orthodoxy was scorned by the city's cultural elite Synonyms deflection, divergence, detour, deviation, divagation, divergency, diversionRelated Words regression, retrogression, reversionNear Antonyms adherence.
Consider the estimates provided by Buszko at the end of his article on Auschwitz, which appeared in the Encyclopedia of the Holocaust: 1  Of the 405,000 registered prisoners, 65,000 survived. 2  Of the 16,000 Soviet POW's, 96 survived. 3  Various estimates suggest 1.6 million were murdered.
Nine out of 10 victims in Auschwitz-Birkenau were Jews. The remaining victims were mainly Poles, gypsies, and Soviet POWâs. Majdanek began its gassings in October 1942. The camp functioned in the same way as Auschwitz-Birkenau, and also included a concentration-and work camp.