Auschwitz
Americannoun
noun
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Her return visit to Auschwitz, around the same time, dissolved much of her angst, allowing her to pursue her vocation with greater self-confidence.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026
More than 35 years after surviving Auschwitz, Edith Eva Eger returned to the Nazi concentration camp.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 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
Dr Marcel Ladenheim, who was hidden by a French family during the Holocaust after his father was killed at Auschwitz, said he now felt "worried" for his children and grandchildren.
From BBC • Jan. 27, 2026
The numbers swelled: in 1944 alone, nearly 500,000 men, women, and children were transported to Auschwitz.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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