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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Helene has cemented the Tar Heel state as a target for disaster tourism, a cultural phenomenon that recasts war zones as holiday destinations and slots concentration camps onto bucket lists.
—Lila Hempel-Edgers
july 22, Charlotte Observer, 22 July 2025
Erik becomes Magneto, and those early experiences in the concentration camp indelibly shaped his character and world view, fueling his nefarious plans for mutants to displace humans as the dominant species on Earth.
—ArsTechnica, 20 July 2025
An act that could destroy the ceasefire negotiations and would consolidate the Israeli plans of creating a concentration camp in Rafah to enforce ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians in Gaza.
—Amira El-Fekki, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 July 2025
Most of the victims were deported by train to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, where only a few survived.
—Dan Fellner, Sun Sentinel, 11 July 2025
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Lila Hempel-Edgers
july 22, Charlotte Observer, 22 July 2025
Erik becomes Magneto, and those early experiences in the concentration camp indelibly shaped his character and world view, fueling his nefarious plans for mutants to displace humans as the dominant species on Earth.
—ArsTechnica, 20 July 2025
An act that could destroy the ceasefire negotiations and would consolidate the Israeli plans of creating a concentration camp in Rafah to enforce ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians in Gaza.
—Amira El-Fekki, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 July 2025
Most of the victims were deported by train to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, where only a few survived.
—Dan Fellner, Sun Sentinel, 11 July 2025
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“Concentration camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/concentration%20camp. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.
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