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

‘One day, when talking about Auschwitz, we will talk about music, and only then will we have truly liberated Auschwitz.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

In Auschwitz last year, he was playing a lullaby on the piano, composed by Adam Kopycinski, a brilliant Polish musician who was the conductor of the Auschwitz Orchestra and had performed for Höss.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

We used to sing that kind of song in Auschwitz to remind ourselves of the world outside, where people fell in love, held each other, made plans for the future.

From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper