death camp
noun
: a concentration camp in which large numbers of prisoners are systematically killed
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Eight decades earlier, Roth was a prisoner in the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany, having already survived the Auschwitz death camp and, before that, a ghetto for Eastern European Jews.
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Tom Dreisbach, NPR, 30 June 2025
The original promise of the Israeli state was to end, once and for all, the dependency and the powerlessness of an exilic people who had suffered antisemitic persecution for centuries—a dark history that reached its nadir in the Nazi death camps.
—David Remnick, New Yorker, 21 June 2025
More victims than survivors, as much of his relatives perished in the death camps.
—Thomas Mountain, Boston Herald, 17 June 2025
There are very few survivors left as the world commemorates the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz.
—Danuta Hamlin, Fox News, 25 Jan. 2025
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Tom Dreisbach, NPR, 30 June 2025
The original promise of the Israeli state was to end, once and for all, the dependency and the powerlessness of an exilic people who had suffered antisemitic persecution for centuries—a dark history that reached its nadir in the Nazi death camps.
—David Remnick, New Yorker, 21 June 2025
More victims than survivors, as much of his relatives perished in the death camps.
—Thomas Mountain, Boston Herald, 17 June 2025
There are very few survivors left as the world commemorates the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz.
—Danuta Hamlin, Fox News, 25 Jan. 2025
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“Death camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/death%20camp. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.
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