Auschwitz
Americannoun
noun
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
“Part of me was left in Auschwitz, but not the better part. Not the bigger part.”
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
The King, who last year became the first British head of state to visit Auschwitz, also told 100-year-old survivor Lasker-Wallfish that it was "wonderful" to have her join the reception.
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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