Definition of gas chamber
: a chamber in which prisoners are executed by poison gas
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In an obsessive search for witnesses, Mr. Lanzmann tracked down some of the last surviving members of the Sonderkommandos, groups of Jewish prisoners ordered to assist in the arrival and disposal of victims for the gas chambers and crematoriums.
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Despite thousands of people dying there, no gas chambers were ever built on the site.
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Later, American gas chambers were outfitted with a chute down which poison pellets were dropped.
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The solemn march began at the main gate of Auschwitz and ended 2 miles away at Birkenau, where Jews from across Europe were transported by train and murdered in gas chambers.
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She was sent to the gas chambers on arrival at Auschwitz.
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The push for change comes because lethal injection, introduced 40 years ago as more efficient and humane than the electric chair or gas chamber, has not met that promise.
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But many objected to his mockery of African-American vernacular and his references to gas chambers.
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Once there, Schindler recalls one of the Jewish workers in a striped uniform telling her to conceal her age because the young arrivals were sent straight to the gas chambers with their mothers.
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First Known Use of gas chamber
1933
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Definition of gas chamber for English Language Learners
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: a room in which prisoners are killed by poisonous gas
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