Auschwitz

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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

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

In Auschwitz last year, he was playing a lullaby on the piano, composed by Adam Kopycinski, a brilliant Polish musician who was the conductor of the Auschwitz Orchestra and had performed for Höss.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

He guesses that Kopycinski, who lost two sisters at Auschwitz, “probably dedicated the lullaby to a son from a previous marriage before his deportation.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

Before them, the concentration camp at Auschwitz spread out, a desolate flat place surrounded by heavy chain-link fence, topped with coils of barbed wire.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti