How to Use death camp in a Sentence

death camp

noun
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  • All the while, there are those flashbacks to the death camps.
    — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2020
  • Or how about the Nazi death camp guard living in Queens?
    — Fox News, 23 Aug. 2018
  • The former Nazi death camp is about a 90-minute bus ride from Krakow.
    — Patrick Regan, chicagotribune.com, 2 Mar. 2018
  • The virtual tour of the Auschwitz death camp begins at the main gate.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2022
  • His unit was part of the liberation of the Dachau death camp.
    — Melanie Laughman, The Enquirer, 4 July 2022
  • The box held the remains of a victim of the infamous Auschwitz death camp.
    — Alexandro M. Luna, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Jan. 2018
  • Hinrichsen was killed at the Auschwitz death camp in 1942.
    — Star Tribune, 13 Jan. 2021
  • On the other side of their garden wall, beyond the barbed wire, is the death camp Auschwitz.
    — Hazlitt, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Among them is 90-year-old Eva Szepesi, a survivor of the Auschwitz death camp.
    — Kirsten Grieshaber, ajc, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The play ends with a list of the death camps and the relatives who died in them or otherwise in the wake of the Anschluss.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Kim was 1 month old when his family was moved to a Khmer Rouge death camp.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022
  • At the railyard, a train full of internees bound for the death camps passes, the arms of the damned reaching through the slats of the boxcars.
    — Chris Klimek, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Critics say the term applies only to the Nazi death camps where millions of Jews were killed.
    — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimes.com, 22 June 2019
  • Their short period on the run would be followed by the longer nightmare of death camp.
    — Nina MacLaughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2018
  • Tweeted pictures of death camps, the world is crumbling.
    — Fox News, 24 June 2018
  • He was determined to free his then-fiancee, who was on a list to be sent to Auschwitz, a Nazi death camp in Poland.
    — Darcy Costello, The Courier-Journal, 21 Mar. 2018
  • Signs in downtown Krakow feature bus tours to the infamous Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, an hour’s drive to the west. .
    — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2022
  • At the end of the war, after 6 million Jews perished in the death camps, only a few thousand Jews were left alive.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • They were deported from their homes by rail to Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps in less than two months in mid-1944.
    — Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2020
  • But this idyllic little complex shares a wall of concrete with the death camp next door.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2024
  • Clary was kept captive for 31 months in the Nazi concentration and death camp.
    — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Leon Scharzbaum, a survivor of the Nazis’ death camp at Auschwitz and a lifelong fighter for justice for the victims of the Holocaust, has died at 101.
    — NBC News, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Only 151 survived the death camps; Sam’s parents and siblings were not among them.
    — Andrew Harris, Slate Magazine, 28 Aug. 2017
  • Get a grip: The president’s critics are not being rounded up and sent to death camps.
    — David Harsanyi, National Review, 10 Feb. 2020
  • As the students stepped inside a cattle car used to transport Jews to the death camp, their mouths began to open wide as if to ask, What...
    — Diane Cole, WSJ, 12 Apr. 2019
  • Thousands of people usually take part in the march on the grounds of the former Auschwitz death camp, which had been run by Germany, in Poland.
    — Laurie Kellman, Star Tribune, 8 Apr. 2021
  • How should the court view the issue if it were raised by a descendant of a Holocaust survivor photographed in a Nazi death camp?
    — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Nov. 2021
  • All these decades later, stark memories of the German death camp creep back to van Leenen in his sleep.
    — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Her sister died in Auschwitz, the Nazis’ most notorious death camp.
    — oregonlive, 4 Feb. 2020
  • In the documentary series, the infamous death camp will be portrayed through the eyes of the rebels and survivors.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 20 Mar. 2023

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