Auschwitz
Example Sentences
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Florence Miailhe’s oil-painted memory play tells of Alfred Nakache, a French swimmer of Algerian Jewish descent who finished ahead of Nazi competitors at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, joined the Resistance and survived Auschwitz.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 16, 2026
Another example is a fake image created to illustrate the invented story of a Czech violinist called "Hank" at Auschwitz, which was called out as false by the camp museum.
From Barron's • Jan. 27, 2026
“The German authorities at Auschwitz I”—the main camp of the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex—“had a good knowledge of classical music and incurred considerable costs to acquire musical instruments, scores and sheet music.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
Many of the artefacts scheduled to be auctioned were said to have come from the Buchenwald and Auschwitz concentration camps.
From BBC • Nov. 16, 2025
Jack learned his aunt had been married two years before she was deported to Auschwitz and had since been reunited with her husband.
From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren
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