Auschwitz

Example Sentences

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Just days before he believed he would be shipped to Auschwitz, which meant certain death, he escaped alongside Erno Erbstein, another Jewish coach.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 14, 2026

A younger student gave her “Man’s Search for Meaning” by Viktor E. Frankl, who described how he had survived Auschwitz partly by realizing that other inmates needed his help.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

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

This brings everybody into the hall, and for the first time I see several of the other women from my orchestra at Auschwitz.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper