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a type of prison where large numbers of people who are not soldiers are kept during a war and are usually forced to live in very bad conditions
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Prejudice has always been a part of concentration camps.
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Andrea Pitzer, Scientific American, 23 July 2024
The movie, directed by Ellen Kuras, mainly takes place during World War II when Miller was on the front lines, taking some of the most iconic photos to emerge from the Blitz, the liberation of Paris, and the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps.
—Esther Zuckerman, TIME, 27 Sep. 2024
The recording was made on April 16, 1945, at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, one day after British troops liberated the site.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2024
In the movie, the supervillain Apocalypse finds Magneto and takes him to the Auschwitz concentration camp, reminding him of how horrific humans can be.
—Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 27 July 2024
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Andrea Pitzer, Scientific American, 23 July 2024
The movie, directed by Ellen Kuras, mainly takes place during World War II when Miller was on the front lines, taking some of the most iconic photos to emerge from the Blitz, the liberation of Paris, and the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps.
—Esther Zuckerman, TIME, 27 Sep. 2024
The recording was made on April 16, 1945, at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, one day after British troops liberated the site.
—Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2024
In the movie, the supervillain Apocalypse finds Magneto and takes him to the Auschwitz concentration camp, reminding him of how horrific humans can be.
—Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 27 July 2024
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In Montgomery Alabama, a stand alone prison camp that is usually pretty laid back, prisoners decided on a bit of civil disobedience and opted to skip eating in the dining hall.Walter Pavlo, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
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Navalny died suddenly in a prison camp in the Russian Arctic in February.Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2024
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Li was expelled from the Party and imprisoned in work camps from 1959 to 1978, including eight years in solitary confinement, after criticizing Mao’s disastrous effort to modernize the agricultural sector using communist ideologies, causing a catastrophic famine.Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2024
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He was convicted in June 2020 during a closed-door trial and sentenced to 16 years of hard labor in a work camp.Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 2 Aug. 2024
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Washington — In December 2022, Paul Whelan was sitting in a factory at a Russian labor camp in Mordovia, more than seven hours east of Moscow, adding buttons and buttonholes to winter coats.Margaret Brennan, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2024
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These problems, Herman noted, occurred when one person was under the control of another, such as in the context of prisons or labor camps or in certain families.Diana Kwon, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2022
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Bumgarner comes out of the bullpen to pitch five scoreless innings on two days’ rest as the Giants held off the Kansas City Royals 3-2. 2017 — Justin Rose mounts the third-largest final-round comeback in PGA TOUR history to win the WGC-HSBC Champions.Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2024
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That’s enough for Los Angeles professionals like My Lovely Attorney to complete a day’s driving to and from Downtown LA without need to call the gas engine from the bullpen.Mark Ewing, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
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“Concentration camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concentration%20camp. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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