How to Use concentration camp in a Sentence

concentration camp

noun

• My grandfather was in a concentration camp and escaped.
  — Kristine M. Kierzek, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 June 2020
• Jacobs himself is a Holocaust survivor who spent time in a Nazi concentration camp as a child.
  — Josefin Dolsten, sun-sentinel.com, 11 Aug. 2020
• He was later hidden in a Budapest monastery before spending six months in the infamous Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
  — Aron Heller, Star Tribune, 7 Aug. 2020
• In a few weeks, the Dachau concentration camp will open.
  — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2022
• Anne and her sister died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
  — Mike Corder, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2022
• The sandals were sent to the man’s nine-year-old son, living in a Utah concentration camp.
  — Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Feb. 2022
• From there they were sent to the Jungfernhof concentration camp.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Jan. 2023
• The Nazis destroyed much of his work and his wife perished in a concentration camp.
  — New York Times, 14 Feb. 2021
• And a 101-year-old Nazi concentration camp guard was sentenced to prison.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 28 June 2022
• Critics of the shelter plan said the staging area for the shelters looked like a concentration camp.
  — al, 23 June 2022
• Stillman's life took a dark turn at the age of 14 when she was imprisoned at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
  — The Arizona Republic, 22 Apr. 2024
• At that concentration camp, over a million men, women and children were killed in the most heinous of ways.
  — Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
• In 1940, Ruth and her family were rounded up and moved to a concentration camp in Gurs, France.
  — Yael Lavie, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2022
• Shot in Sweden in 1972, the film told the tale of a clown taken to a concentration camp and tasked with walking children to gas chambers.
  — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 30 Aug. 2024
• That they weren't killed in a concentration camp Asia called a miracle.
  — Yulia Drozd, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2023
• Though neither was in a concentration camp, both witnessed the horrors of war.
  — Megan Becka, cleveland, 11 Apr. 2022
• The survey found that 48% could not name a concentration camp or ghetto.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 5 June 2024
• Many of the concentration camp scenes drive home the cruelty of such places, and certainly put the audience in the shoes of those who were there.
  — Amber Dowling, Variety, 2 May 2024
• In 1944, he was transferred to Auschwitz-Birkenau, then Stutthof concentration camp, and was then sent on a death march.
  — Town & Country, 18 Jan. 2023
• The final claim, about the concentration camp and genocide, is based on an egregious rewriting of the history of the U.S.-Dakota War.
  — Katherine Kersten, Star Tribune, 24 June 2021
• The Dachau concentration camp is one of many sites throughout Germany that now stands in this spirit.
  — Jasper Bastian, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2020
• Their journey began in Italy and concludes with the horror of the Dachau concentration camp.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 11 Nov. 2020
• The rest were deported to Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany, where 47 died in the next two months.
  — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2022
• He was sent to the Pankratz prison in Prague and later transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp in central Germany.
  — Dan Falk, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2021
• In 1939, when he is supposed to be released, Anna and Helene go to the prison to pick him up, but they are told he has been sent to a concentration camp.
  — John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
• The third and final concentration camp I was deported to was Neustadt-Glewe.
  — Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 8 July 2024
• Bejarano was later transferred to the Ravensbrueck concentration camp and survived a death march at the end of the war.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 July 2021
• Hollo and his parents were taken to a concentration camp in Auschwitz in 1941.
  — Rebecca San Juan, Miami Herald, 4 May 2024
• The family was arrested in 1944, and Frank later died of typhus in a concentration camp.
  — Tess Ware, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2024
• Abend says many attendees have been people who visited concentration camps or have connections to people who were prisoners in those camps.
  — Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Dec 2024