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Auschwitz

[oush-vits] / ˈaʊʃ vɪts /


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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

She was arrested by German officers in April 1944 and taken to Auschwitz the following month.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

Two Auschwitz survivors are still overwhelmed, 60 years later, when they describe finding each other in the Lutetia’s lobby in 1945.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 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

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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