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

“If I were to play you some of these works, and I didn’t tell you that they were written in Auschwitz or Bergen-Belsen, you wouldn’t know. It’s beautiful music, that’s all.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

“The German authorities at Auschwitz I”—the main camp of the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex—“had a good knowledge of classical music and incurred considerable costs to acquire musical instruments, scores and sheet music.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

This guard tower and the electrified harhed-wire fence at Auschwitz were typical of towers and fences at all the concentration and labor camps.

From "Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps" by Andrea Warren