Definition of death camp
: a concentration camp in which large numbers of prisoners are systematically killed
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Participants then paid homage to the victims at several memorial sites in the area of the former ghetto, including at Umschlagplatz, the spot where Jews were assembled before being transported to the Treblinka death camp.
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In one part of the plaza, train tracks that carried prisoners to the Treblinka death camp will be embedded in the pavement.
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The Jasenovac death camp in Croatia was run by the Ustasha, the fascist regime allied with Nazi Germany during World War II.
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Simone Jacob was 16 when she was sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp with her mother and a sister in March 1944.
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Recipients of those summonses were deported — to concentration camps across Eastern Europe, including Auschwitz, a concentration camp and death camp in Poland where more than half a million Hungarian Jews were murdered by 1945.
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The Holocaust Memorial consists of six 54-foot-tall glass towers, each containing 22 glass panels etched with 17,280 numbers that echo the tattoos that Nazis gave to death camp inmates, according to the monument’s website.
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Jean Améry, Primo Levi, Eli Weisel—had penned riveting accounts of their experiences in the death camps; but most survivors were silent, still laboring under the oppressive weight of trauma and the world’s indifference.
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Tweeted pictures of death camps, the world is crumbling.
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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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