death camp
noun
: a concentration camp in which large numbers of prisoners are systematically killed
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The other story line tracks the family’s life in Europe before World War II, continues through the horrors his parents endured, the liberation of the death camps, an interlude in Sweden (where Artie was born) and a new, at times excruciating life in America.
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Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Flashback: The Statehouse memorial was unveiled in 2014 and honors the memory of Ohioans who survived and liberated the Nazi death camps.
—Andrew King, Axios, 23 Jan. 2025
Anne Frank The Exhibition opened on Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27 to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the largest death camp.
—Janine Henni, People.com, 25 Feb. 2025
The company robbed hundreds of thousands of Jews before sending them to Nazi death camps in 1944.
—Adam Liptak, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
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Manohla Dargis, New York Times, 20 Feb. 2025
Flashback: The Statehouse memorial was unveiled in 2014 and honors the memory of Ohioans who survived and liberated the Nazi death camps.
—Andrew King, Axios, 23 Jan. 2025
Anne Frank The Exhibition opened on Holocaust Remembrance Day on Jan. 27 to mark the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the largest death camp.
—Janine Henni, People.com, 25 Feb. 2025
The company robbed hundreds of thousands of Jews before sending them to Nazi death camps in 1944.
—Adam Liptak, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
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“Death camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/death%20camp. Accessed 10 Apr. 2025.
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