Auschwitz

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Primo Levi, reflecting on his survival in Auschwitz, wrote that “there was no use closing our eyes or turning our backs, because it was all around us, in every direction, as far as the horizon.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 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

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

‘One day, when talking about Auschwitz, we will talk about music, and only then will we have truly liberated Auschwitz.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

At Auschwitz and other concentration camps, the Waffen-SS members were camp guards.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti