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a type of prison where large numbers of people who are not soldiers are kept during a war and are usually forced to live in very bad conditions
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Recent Examples of concentration camp
Her father, Charles M. Gavin III, served with the 84th Infantry Division during World War II and helped liberate two concentration camps.
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Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 24 May 2025
With that said, there is one cinematic Holocaust project that comes closest to depicting the objectively depraved existence of life in a concentration camp, 2015’s Son of Saul, which premiered at Cannes 10 years ago this week.
—Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
The Nazis seized the factory, converting it into a munitions plant and later a branch of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 May 2025
The sports media personality initially offered to send the culprits to Auschwitz, the infamous concentration camp run by the Nazis in Poland during World War II, to learn about the Holocaust against the Jews.
—Staff, FOXNews.com, 8 May 2025
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Suzanne Nuyen, NPR, 24 May 2025
With that said, there is one cinematic Holocaust project that comes closest to depicting the objectively depraved existence of life in a concentration camp, 2015’s Son of Saul, which premiered at Cannes 10 years ago this week.
—Josh Weiss, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
The Nazis seized the factory, converting it into a munitions plant and later a branch of the Gross-Rosen concentration camp.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 May 2025
The sports media personality initially offered to send the culprits to Auschwitz, the infamous concentration camp run by the Nazis in Poland during World War II, to learn about the Holocaust against the Jews.
—Staff, FOXNews.com, 8 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for concentration camp
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They were sent to the new communist government’s re-education prison camps and forced to do hard labor.—
Eduardo Cuevas,
USA Today,
29 May 2025
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The mass arrests, at first of mostly non-Jewish Poles, led the Nazis to construct new prison camps or refurbish existing structures, like the former military barracks in Oswiecim, Poland, which opened as the Auschwitz concentration camp in June 1940.—
Paul Hockenos,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 May 2025
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In the series, the submarine is a secret project of the company’s that Nemo, who was a prisoner in a work camp for three years, helped design.—
Roxana Hadadi,
Vulture,
25 June 2025
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In an earlier interview, Leili repeatedly denied guarding prisoners at Mauthausen, one of a cluster of work camps in Austria, notorious for a stone quarry where slave laborers spent 11-hour days hauling slabs of granite up a steep rock staircase.—
Henry Leutwyler Robert Petkoff Emma Kehlbeck Quinton Kamara,
New York Times,
20 May 2025
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They’re housed in crowded labor camps and their passports are held by their employers, rendering them captive.—
Sonali Kolhatkar,
Sun Sentinel,
29 June 2025
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Adapted from the eponymous novel by physicist and Gulag survivor Georgy Demidov, the film is set in the Soviet Union’s era of Great Terror, or Great Purge, in the late 1930s, in which Joseph Stalin consolidated his power by either killing or incarcerating political opponents in harsh labor camps.—
Andreas Wiseman,
Deadline,
27 May 2025
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Plus top prospect Andrew Painter is heading toward his own big-league debut, Aaron Nola is working toward a return from injury and Taijuan Walker is adjusting to a new role in the bullpen.—
Peter Chawaga,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 June 2025
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Robinson Piña was added to the 40-man roster from Triple A Jacksonville, giving the Marlins another arm in the bullpen, McCullough said.—
Steve Gorten,
Miami Herald,
20 June 2025
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“Concentration camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concentration%20camp. Accessed 3 Jul. 2025.
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