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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When her husband was arrested and sent to the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp, Girone was eight months pregnant, Claims Conference said.
—Reuters, NBC News, 28 Feb. 2025
And on the site of the Jasenovac concentration camp in Croatia, run by a Nazi puppet regime, architect Bogdan Bogdanović crafted perhaps the most optimistic acknowledgment of the will to overcome the 20th century’s darkest hours.
—Michael Allen, The Conversation, 27 Feb. 2025
Girone was eight months pregnant when Mannheim was arrested and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1939, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported.
—Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 26 Feb. 2025
An Egon Schiele watercolor is set to be sold next month at Christie’s after a settlement was reached between its cosigner and the heirs of its original owner, a Viennese cabaret performer and writer who was killed in a Nazi concentration camp.
—Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 24 Feb. 2025
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Reuters, NBC News, 28 Feb. 2025
And on the site of the Jasenovac concentration camp in Croatia, run by a Nazi puppet regime, architect Bogdan Bogdanović crafted perhaps the most optimistic acknowledgment of the will to overcome the 20th century’s darkest hours.
—Michael Allen, The Conversation, 27 Feb. 2025
Girone was eight months pregnant when Mannheim was arrested and sent to the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1939, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported.
—Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 26 Feb. 2025
An Egon Schiele watercolor is set to be sold next month at Christie’s after a settlement was reached between its cosigner and the heirs of its original owner, a Viennese cabaret performer and writer who was killed in a Nazi concentration camp.
—Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 24 Feb. 2025
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“Concentration camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/concentration%20camp. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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