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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
Did the family who lived there slip apples over the concentration camp wall?
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Sally Susman, Time, 27 Jan. 2026
As the world marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1945, the deputy commander of Israel’s Jerusalem and Central District in the Home Front Command says the past is not distant history.
—Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 27 Jan. 2026
The prominent mention of Frank, who died of disease in a Nazi concentration camp after her family’s hiding place was betrayed, adds to a growing discourse about whether ICE’s operations targeting immigrants in Minnesota can be compared to the Nazis’ tactics in rooting out Jews during the Holocaust.
—Philissa Cramer, Sun Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2026
Henie plays a young woman, caught in a love triangle, whose father has escaped from a concentration camp.
—Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 26 Jan. 2026
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Sally Susman, Time, 27 Jan. 2026
As the world marks International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in 1945, the deputy commander of Israel’s Jerusalem and Central District in the Home Front Command says the past is not distant history.
—Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 27 Jan. 2026
The prominent mention of Frank, who died of disease in a Nazi concentration camp after her family’s hiding place was betrayed, adds to a growing discourse about whether ICE’s operations targeting immigrants in Minnesota can be compared to the Nazis’ tactics in rooting out Jews during the Holocaust.
—Philissa Cramer, Sun Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2026
Henie plays a young woman, caught in a love triangle, whose father has escaped from a concentration camp.
—Natasha O'Neill, Vanity Fair, 26 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for concentration camp
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After Japan's surrender at the end of the war, Mino was captured as a prisoner of war and sent to a Siberian prison camp in Russia.—
Ashley Sharp,
CBS News,
23 Jan. 2026
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Holmes, 41, has two small children and is serving her term at a minimum-security prison camp northwest of Houston.—
Bloomberg,
Mercury News,
22 Jan. 2026
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The family was forced into a cattle car packed full of mostly Jewish people, forced to go to what was supposed to be a work camp at Auschwitz in Poland, but was an extermination camp.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Jan. 2026
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In Oregon in 1933, Samuel Murphy is torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal work camp.—
Anthony D'Alessandro,
Deadline,
22 Jan. 2026
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In another extraordinary anecdote, Chang describes hitchhiking her way across remote China to a labor camp her father was being held in, to lift his spirits.—
Emily Feng,
NPR,
13 Jan. 2026
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People were forced into labor camps in the countryside; schools and temples were turned into prisons; and paddy fields were used as execution sites.—
Susan Young,
PEOPLE,
14 Dec. 2025
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The Cubs also reconstructed their bullpen, by adding right-handed free agent relievers Phil Maton, Hunter Harvey, and Jacob Webb, in addition to lefty Hoby Milner.—
Bernie Pleskoff,
Forbes.com,
13 Jan. 2026
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The Braves further bolstered their bullpen Sunday, re-signing veteran reliever Tyler Kinley to a one-year deal. Kinley, 34, will earn $3 million this season.—
Gabriel Burns,
AJC.com,
11 Jan. 2026
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