Auschwitz

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It will be directed by Toby Trackman, winner of a Royal Television Society award for his film The Last Musician of Auschwitz.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

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

She is presented as Hannelore Kaufmann, a 13-year-old Berliner who purportedly died at the Auschwitz extermination camp, of which the 1945 liberation by Soviet troops is commemorated on Tuesday.

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

Eventually her family was forced into a Hungarian ghetto and then off to Auschwitz.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers