extermination camp
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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
That post by Ursula von der Leyen on X, formerly Twitter, was later corrected to say that Auschwitz was a Nazi German extermination camp.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 28, 2024
What Glazer has retained is the novel’s intimate juxtaposition between the horrors of the extermination camp and the everyday lives of its non-inmate characters.
From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2023
The Auschwitz extermination camp was at the heart of the Nazi genocide of six million Jews in World War Two.
From BBC • Aug. 29, 2023
Viewers get a guided tour of Jewish life in Poland before the Holocaust, visit the Nazi extermination camp and then a tour of Israel while hearing survivor stories.
From Reuters • Jan. 27, 2023