Auschwitz

Example Sentences

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Edith learned that Eric, her teenage boyfriend, had died in Auschwitz.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 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

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

Dr Marcel Ladenheim, who was hidden by a French family during the Holocaust after his father was killed at Auschwitz, said he now felt "worried" for his children and grandchildren.

From BBC • Jan. 27, 2026

I had survived Plaszów, and Wieliczka, and Trzebinia, and Birkenau, and now Auschwitz.

From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz