How to Use concentration camp in a Sentence

concentration camp

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  • In a few weeks, the Dachau concentration camp will open.
    — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2022
  • Anne and her sister died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
    — Mike Corder, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2022
  • The sandals were sent to the man’s nine-year-old son, living in a Utah concentration camp.
    — Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Feb. 2022
  • From there they were sent to the Jungfernhof concentration camp.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Jan. 2023
  • And a 101-year-old Nazi concentration camp guard was sentenced to prison.
    — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 28 June 2022
  • Critics of the shelter plan said the staging area for the shelters looked like a concentration camp.
    — al, 23 June 2022
  • Stillman's life took a dark turn at the age of 14 when she was imprisoned at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
    — The Arizona Republic, 22 Apr. 2024
  • At that concentration camp, over a million men, women and children were killed in the most heinous of ways.
    — Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
  • In 1940, Ruth and her family were rounded up and moved to a concentration camp in Gurs, France.
    — Yael Lavie, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2022
  • That they weren't killed in a concentration camp Asia called a miracle.
    — Yulia Drozd, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Though neither was in a concentration camp, both witnessed the horrors of war.
    — Megan Becka, cleveland, 11 Apr. 2022
  • The survey found that 48% could not name a concentration camp or ghetto.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 5 June 2024
  • Many of the concentration camp scenes drive home the cruelty of such places, and certainly put the audience in the shoes of those who were there.
    — Amber Dowling, Variety, 2 May 2024
  • In 1944, he was transferred to Auschwitz-Birkenau, then Stutthof concentration camp, and was then sent on a death march.
    — Town & Country, 18 Jan. 2023
  • The rest were deported to Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany, where 47 died in the next two months.
    — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2022
  • He was sent to the Pankratz prison in Prague and later transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp in central Germany.
    — Dan Falk, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2021
  • In 1939, when he is supposed to be released, Anna and Helene go to the prison to pick him up, but they are told he has been sent to a concentration camp.
    — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • The third and final concentration camp I was deported to was Neustadt-Glewe.
    — Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 8 July 2024
  • Hollo and his parents were taken to a concentration camp in Auschwitz in 1941.
    — Rebecca San Juan, Miami Herald, 4 May 2024
  • More than 1,000 died in prisons and concentration camps.
    — Deepa Bharath, ajc, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Around the same time, reports emerged of the Nazi killing of over 7,000 Jewish prisoners from a nearby concentration camp.
    — Nicole Eaton, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
  • Most of these refugees — many of whom had escaped Nazi concentration camps — were housed at Fort Ontario in Oswego.
    — Wendy O'Dea, Travel + Leisure, 13 Dec. 2023
  • In 1945, Baum was freed by Russian soldiers from the Terezin concentration camp, a way-station en route to Auschwitz’s gas chambers.
    — Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune, 22 Jan. 2023
  • The group gathered by a brick women's barracks at the former concentration camp and lit candles and prayed for the victims.
    — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Fox News, 28 Jan. 2024
  • In the book, cartoonist/artist Art Spiegelman tells the story of his parents' time in a Nazi concentration camp.
    — Eric Fayeulle, ABC News, 27 Jan. 2022
  • The family found themselves in a refugee camp—a former concentration camp—for two years.
    — Antonia Debianchi, Peoplemag, 5 Oct. 2023
  • The movie tells the story of a Nazi commandant who tries to build a beautiful life for his family next to the Auschwitz concentration camp.
    — Rebecca Aizin, Peoplemag, 18 Dec. 2023
  • The camp, established in 1940, was the largest concentration camp of Nazi Germany during the Holocaust.
    — Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2022
  • Frank and her family hid for two years before they were sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
    — Lorenzino Estrada, The Arizona Republic, 12 June 2024
  • Ruth was 7 when her family was sent to a concentration camp.
    — Yael Lavie, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2022

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