concentration camp
noun
: 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 Remnick
David RemnickShe ended up dying in a concentration camp, just a few months before she would have been liberated.—Marilyn Reynolds
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
Anna Tomforde et al.Examples of concentration camp in a Sentence
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Her father, Charles M. Gavin III, served with the 84th Infantry Division during World War II and helped liberate two concentration camps.
—Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 24 May 2025
With that said, there is one cinematic Holocaust project that comes closest to depicting the objectively depraved existence of life in a concentration camp, 2015’s Son of Saul, which premiered at Cannes 10 years ago this week.
—Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
The Nazis seized the factory, converting it into a munitions plant and later a branch of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 May 2025
The sports media personality initially offered to send the culprits to Auschwitz, the infamous concentration camp run by the Nazis in Poland during World War II, to learn about the Holocaust against the Jews.
—Staff, FOXNews.com, 8 May 2025
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Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 24 May 2025
With that said, there is one cinematic Holocaust project that comes closest to depicting the objectively depraved existence of life in a concentration camp, 2015’s Son of Saul, which premiered at Cannes 10 years ago this week.
—Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
The Nazis seized the factory, converting it into a munitions plant and later a branch of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 May 2025
The sports media personality initially offered to send the culprits to Auschwitz, the infamous concentration camp run by the Nazis in Poland during World War II, to learn about the Holocaust against the Jews.
—Staff, FOXNews.com, 8 May 2025
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“Concentration camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/concentration%20camp. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.
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