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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Shot in Sweden in 1972, the film told the tale of a clown taken to a concentration camp and tasked with walking children to gas chambers.
—Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 30 Aug. 2024
The play strongly suggests that its gay and Jewish characters are doomed to perish in concentration camps after Hitler comes to power.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 7 June 2024
Westerbork became a site where Jews (including my family) were temporarily held before deportation to killing centers and other concentration camps.
—Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2024
As cremation is prohibited in the Jewish faith, Zebco constructs the country’s first incinerator using, grimly, the schematics from an actual concentration camp.
—Amy Nicholson, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
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Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 30 Aug. 2024
The play strongly suggests that its gay and Jewish characters are doomed to perish in concentration camps after Hitler comes to power.
—Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 7 June 2024
Westerbork became a site where Jews (including my family) were temporarily held before deportation to killing centers and other concentration camps.
—Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2024
As cremation is prohibited in the Jewish faith, Zebco constructs the country’s first incinerator using, grimly, the schematics from an actual concentration camp.
—Amy Nicholson, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
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“Concentration camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/concentration%20camp. Accessed 17 Sep. 2024.
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