: a chamber in which prisoners are executed by poison gas
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Most, including mothers, children and the elderly, were sent straight to death in gas chambers where, at their peak, 6,000 people were murdered each day.—Lesley Stahl, CBS News, 16 Feb. 2026 But an uproar ensued after one of the SSPX bishops, Richard Williamson, publicly denied in a television interview that Jews were killed in gas chambers during World War II.—Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2026 Poland’s President Karol Nawrocki was scheduled to join survivors for a remembrance ceremony at Birkenau, the vast site nearby where Jews from across Europe were exterminated in gas chambers.—Vanessa Gera, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2026 In later posts on its X account, the chatbot acknowledged that its earlier reply to an X user was wrong, said it had been deleted and pointed to historical evidence that Auschwitz’s gas chambers using Zyklon B were used to murder more than 1 million people.—Thomas Adamson, Fortune, 21 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for gas chamber