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Auschwitz

[oush-vits] / ˈaʊʃ vɪts /


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The name of a Scot who died in the Holocaust after refusing to abandon Jewish children in her care has been added to a special memorial wall at Auschwitz.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

Jane Haining is recognised in a renewed section of the Auschwitz Birkenau Memorial and Museum's main exhibition - devoted to hundreds of prisoners for whom no registration photographs were taken.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

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

Days later they arrived at a place they didn’t know was Auschwitz in a country they didn’t know was German-occupied Poland.

From The Wall Street Journal May 14, 2026

As we walk, we pass sculpted tributes of wood and copper to a priest from Auschwitz, and also St. Therese of Lisieux, who was known as “The Little Flower of Jesus.”

From "All The Bright Places" by Jennifer Niven




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