death camp
noun
: a concentration camp in which large numbers of prisoners are systematically killed
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This last plot strand crimps some of Accountant’s fast, loose fun: Kids in prison camps — and this one could end up a death camp, if the villains have their way — aren’t very entertaining.
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Tom Gliatto, People.com, 25 Apr. 2025
Francis made pilgrimages to Israel, the Great Synagogue in Rome and the Auschwitz death camp, and the committee's leadership met with him at the Vatican in 2014 and 2019.
—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 22 Apr. 2025
Near the end of the war, his father, Sam, emerged from hiding in a Polish forest and searched for his wife, Esther, in the Lodz Ghetto but learned she had been sent to the Chelmno death camp.
—Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 21 July 2025
But a historic South Florida case that lasted for years suggests otherwise, because of the extraordinary due process afforded the defendant: Feodor Fedorenko, a former guard at the infamous Treblinka death camp in Poland, where the Nazis killed about 900,000 Jews during the Holocaust.
—Miami Herald, 7 July 2025
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Tom Gliatto, People.com, 25 Apr. 2025
Francis made pilgrimages to Israel, the Great Synagogue in Rome and the Auschwitz death camp, and the committee's leadership met with him at the Vatican in 2014 and 2019.
—N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 22 Apr. 2025
Near the end of the war, his father, Sam, emerged from hiding in a Polish forest and searched for his wife, Esther, in the Lodz Ghetto but learned she had been sent to the Chelmno death camp.
—Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 21 July 2025
But a historic South Florida case that lasted for years suggests otherwise, because of the extraordinary due process afforded the defendant: Feodor Fedorenko, a former guard at the infamous Treblinka death camp in Poland, where the Nazis killed about 900,000 Jews during the Holocaust.
—Miami Herald, 7 July 2025
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“Death camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/death%20camp. Accessed 22 Aug. 2025.
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