concentration camp
nounDefinition of concentration camp
: 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 RemnickShe ended up dying in a concentration camp, just a few months before she would have been liberated.— 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
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He was handed over to the Germans and deported to the Buchenwald concentration camp, where he was kept alongside Léon Blum, France’s left-wing (and first Jewish) prime minister. — James Mcauley, Town & Country, "The Haunting of Paris: Georges Mandel and the Long Legacy of Nazi Violence," 6 Aug. 2019 Forty-nine of his relatives were killed in the concentration camps, but his parents and three of his four siblings managed to survive and emigrate to Israel. — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, "Artur Brauner, Holocaust Survivor and German Film Producer, Dies at 100," 7 July 2019 Holocaust survivor and beloved Hoosier Eva Mozes Kor died this morning just miles from the Auschwitz concentration camp, seventy-five years after first arriving there as a victim of torture under the Nazi regime. — London Gibson, Indianapolis Star, "Holocaust survivor and beloved Hoosier Eva Kor dies at 85," 4 July 2019 The couple got matching bands with rose gold triangles — a symbol for the LGBTQ community once used by the Nazis in concentration camps and now worn by some as a form of protest and pride. — Samantha Schmidt, Washington Post, "Gay rights or women’s rights? This pioneering lesbian activist refused to take a side.," 26 June 2019 Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted Under Nazism Berlin, Germany Thousands of gay men were imprisoned in concentration camps in Nazi Germany, where many died of disease, starvation, torture, and targeted killings. — Ivan Quintanilla, National Geographic, "These monuments honor LGBTQ history around the world," 22 June 2019 In her live video, AOC said the issue is not just about immigrants being held in concentration camps. — Caitlin O'kane, CBS News, "Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: "The U.S. is running concentration camps on our southern border"," 18 June 2019 After years of hiding, sadly, Frank died from typhus alongside her sister in 1945 while at the Bergen-Belsen Nazi concentration camp. — Matt Mcnulty, PEOPLE.com, "Anne Frank's Childhood Friends Celebrate Her 90th Birthday with Students in Amsterdam," 13 June 2019 So Schellenberg arranged for the Swedish diplomat Folke Bernadotte to meet with Himmler, who agreed to release some of the prisoners in the concentration camps. — Scott Miller, WSJ, "Five Best: Scott Miller on Spycraft," 3 Aug. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'concentration camp.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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