Auschwitz

Example Sentences

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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

They lived as refugees in the Netherlands before they were captured and sent to the notorious Auschwitz concentration camp.

From BBC • Jan. 4, 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