death camp
noun
: a concentration camp in which large numbers of prisoners are systematically killed
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Its members also helped liberate the Nazi Dachau death camp.
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Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
Your stepfather was a Holocaust survivor who was saved from the death camps by American soldiers.
—Lulu Garcia-Navarro, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2025
Prisoners were released from infamous jails turned into death camps and slaughter houses, such as the notorious Saydnaya.
—Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Dec. 2024
Of that number, 254 later perished in the death camps at Auschwitz and Sobibor.
—Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 29 Nov. 2024
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Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
Your stepfather was a Holocaust survivor who was saved from the death camps by American soldiers.
—Lulu Garcia-Navarro, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2025
Prisoners were released from infamous jails turned into death camps and slaughter houses, such as the notorious Saydnaya.
—Dominique Soguel, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Dec. 2024
Of that number, 254 later perished in the death camps at Auschwitz and Sobibor.
—Bruce Fein, Baltimore Sun, 29 Nov. 2024
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“Death camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/death%20camp. Accessed 15 Jan. 2025.
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