concentration camp
noun
: a place where large numbers of people (such as prisoners of war, political prisoners, refugees, or the members of an ethnic or religious minority) are detained or confined under armed guard
—used especially in reference to camps created by the Nazis in World War II for the internment and persecution of Jews and other prisoners
The Nazi soldiers hauled [Mordechai] Strigler off to a concentration camp, and carved swastikas into his cheeks and forehead with a razor blade. Over the next five years, he was sent from one concentration camp or slave-labor camp to another.—
David Remnick
David RemnickShe ended up dying in a concentration camp, just a few months before she would have been liberated.—Marilyn Reynolds
Marilyn ReynoldsThe V2 killed thousands of British civilians while 20,000 concentration camp inmates died as slave labourers during its manufacture in the closing stages of the second world war.—Anna Tomforde et al.
see also death camp
Anna Tomforde et al.Examples of concentration camp in a Sentence
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The doc is expected to include previously unseen footage from the comedian’s 1972 film maudit about a circus clown imprisoned at a concentration camp.
—Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 23 July 2024
German authorities under General Lothar von Trotha unleashed a brutal retaliation, fuelled by racial ideology and including mass killings, forced labour and concentration camps.
—Harriet Marsden, The Week Uk, theweek, 14 May 2024
One of them replicated the Jasenovac concentration camp in what is now Croatia where tens of thousands of Jews, Romani, and Serbs were murdered during World War II.
—Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 18 July 2024
When her father was caught stealing potatoes to feed their family, he was sent to the Janowska concentration camp adjoining the ghetto, where he was killed, said Oberrotman, an only child.
—Cathy Free, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
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Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 23 July 2024
German authorities under General Lothar von Trotha unleashed a brutal retaliation, fuelled by racial ideology and including mass killings, forced labour and concentration camps.
—Harriet Marsden, The Week Uk, theweek, 14 May 2024
One of them replicated the Jasenovac concentration camp in what is now Croatia where tens of thousands of Jews, Romani, and Serbs were murdered during World War II.
—Vittoria Elliott, WIRED, 18 July 2024
When her father was caught stealing potatoes to feed their family, he was sent to the Janowska concentration camp adjoining the ghetto, where he was killed, said Oberrotman, an only child.
—Cathy Free, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
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“Concentration camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/concentration%20camp. Accessed 18 Aug. 2024.
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