Definition of death camp
: a concentration camp in which large numbers of prisoners are systematically killed
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Israel at 70 Miami Mission Co-Chair Paul Kruss, and Holocaust survivor David Schaecter, at the gate of the Auschwitz death camp in Poland.
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Every day of the 73 years since she has been haunted by the memory of what happened there, and the fate of the millions who never made it out of the Nazi death camps.
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In 1939, Nazi Germany attacked and occupied Poland, building multiple concentration camps there, including the Auschwitz and Treblinka death camps.
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The people rounded up -- including more than 4,000 children -- were housed in a cycling stadium, the Vélodrome d’Hiver, before being sent to the Auschwitz death camp, where virtually all of them died.
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He was determined to free his then-fiancee, who was on a list to be sent to Auschwitz, a Nazi death camp in Poland.
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The remainder were deported first to transit camps in the Netherlands, and then on to concentration camps and death camps like Auschwitz and Sobibór.
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The former Nazi death camp is about a 90-minute bus ride from Krakow.
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The box held the remains of a victim of the infamous Auschwitz death camp.
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First Known Use of death camp
1944
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Definition of death camp for English Language Learners
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: a place where large numbers of prisoners are taken to be killed during a war : a concentration camp where many people are killed
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