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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

Instead of calling an extermination company, my landlord would just text me, claiming the next-door neighbors were dirty.

From MarketWatch • Dec. 11, 2025

Theirs was a bold but unlikely mission: to parachute behind enemy lines and save European Jews from extermination.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025

The infested apartments were split into two categories: untreated homes and those that received professional extermination to remove cockroaches.

From Science Daily • Nov. 4, 2025

“Anyway, he’s done bad things. He made magic use illegal, and he called for the extermination of dragons.”

From Anya and the Dragon by Sofiya Pasternack