How to Use death camp in a Sentence
death camp
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All the while, there are those flashbacks to the death camps.
—Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2020
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Or how about the Nazi death camp guard living in Queens?
—Fox News, 23 Aug. 2018
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The former Nazi death camp is about a 90-minute bus ride from Krakow.
—Patrick Regan, chicagotribune.com, 2 Mar. 2018
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The virtual tour of the Auschwitz death camp begins at the main gate.
—Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2022
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His unit was part of the liberation of the Dachau death camp.
—Melanie Laughman, The Enquirer, 4 July 2022
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The box held the remains of a victim of the infamous Auschwitz death camp.
—Alexandro M. Luna, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Jan. 2018
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Hinrichsen was killed at the Auschwitz death camp in 1942.
—Star Tribune, 13 Jan. 2021
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On the other side of their garden wall, beyond the barbed wire, is the death camp Auschwitz.
—Hazlitt, 6 Mar. 2024
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Among them is 90-year-old Eva Szepesi, a survivor of the Auschwitz death camp.
—Kirsten Grieshaber, ajc, 9 Nov. 2022
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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
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Kim was 1 month old when his family was moved to a Khmer Rouge death camp.
—Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022
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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
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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
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Their short period on the run would be followed by the longer nightmare of death camp.
—Nina MacLaughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2018
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Tweeted pictures of death camps, the world is crumbling.
—Fox News, 24 June 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Clary was kept captive for 31 months in the Nazi concentration and death camp.
—Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2022
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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
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Only 151 survived the death camps; Sam’s parents and siblings were not among them.
—Andrew Harris, Slate Magazine, 28 Aug. 2017
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Get a grip: The president’s critics are not being rounded up and sent to death camps.
—David Harsanyi, National Review, 10 Feb. 2020
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Her sister died in Auschwitz, the Nazis’ most notorious death camp.
—oregonlive, 4 Feb. 2020
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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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