Examples of death camp in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Three months later, the Nazis liquidated the ghetto, transporting its residents to the Treblinka death camp or killing them along the way. — David Rising, Star Tribune, 8 Apr. 2021 Thousands of people usually take part in the march on the grounds of the former Auschwitz death camp, which had been run by Germany, in Poland. — Laurie Kellman, Star Tribune, 8 Apr. 2021 His company had liberated the Nordhausen death camp in Germany. — Marc Myers, WSJ, 21 Apr. 2021 More than half were unable to identify the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, and 11 percent believed that Jews caused the Holocaust. — NBC News, 7 Apr. 2021 In July 1946, a Nazi death camp survivor who’d been here only six weeks was ticketed for jaywalking. — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2021 Like in other camps, Jewish prisoners were singled out at Sachsenhausen for particularly harsh treatment, and most who remained alive by 1942 were sent to the Auschwitz death camp. — David Rising, Star Tribune, 9 Feb. 2021 Her three siblings, parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins were all either gunned down in the Lublin Ghetto in Poland or gassed at Auschwitz or the Sobibor death camp. — Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Feb. 2021 The vast majority of those killed in the Auschwitz death camp were Jews from across Europe, but other non-Jewish prisoners, including Poles, Roma and Soviet soldiers were also among the victims. — Star Tribune, 27 Jan. 2021

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