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

Another example is a fake image created to illustrate the invented story of a Czech violinist called "Hank" at Auschwitz, which was called out as false by the camp museum.

From Barron's • Jan. 27, 2026

In 2024 I helped the nonprofit Counter Extremism Project buy the house next door to Auschwitz, where camp commandant Rudolf Höss lived with his family.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

Many of the artefacts scheduled to be auctioned were said to have come from the Buchenwald and Auschwitz concentration camps.

From BBC • Nov. 16, 2025

In a small town in Poland, a new camp was opened, known as Auschwitz.

From "The Woman All Spies Fear" by Amy Butler Greenfield