death camp

noun

: a concentration camp in which large numbers of prisoners are systematically killed

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French police rounded up thousands of Jews over two days in July 1942, wresting children from their mothers’ arms and dispatching everyone to Nazi death camps. Los Angeles Times, 20 July 2026 The deportation of Jews from the Warsaw Ghetto to the Treblinka death camp began. USA Today, 7 July 2026 Seven of my eight great-grandparents were murdered in the German death camps of Europe. Anne Neuberger, The Atlantic, 3 July 2026 The ship came so close that passengers could see the lights of Miami, but it was forced to return to Europe, where more than two hundred and fifty of the passengers eventually died in the Holocaust, in death camps like Auschwitz and Sobibór, or while hiding from the Nazis. Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 26 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for death camp

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First Known Use

1944, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of death camp was in 1944

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“Death camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/death%20camp. Accessed 28 Jul. 2026.

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