Auschwitz

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“Part of me was left in Auschwitz, but not the better part. Not the bigger part.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

Primo Levi, reflecting on his survival in Auschwitz, wrote that “there was no use closing our eyes or turning our backs, because it was all around us, in every direction, as far as the horizon.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 12, 2026

It will be directed by Toby Trackman, winner of a Royal Television Society award for his film The Last Musician of Auschwitz.

From BBC • Mar. 25, 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

Fred, who had been such a friend to me when I had so desperately wanted one, needed one, at Auschwitz.

From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz