Synonyms of concentration camps

concentration camps

noun

plural of concentration camp

as in prison camps

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

Related Words

• prison camps
• work camps
• labor camps
• big houses
• bull pens
• stalags
• pens
• jails
• quods
• calabooses
• stockades
• gulags
• penitentiaries
• coolers
• hoosegows
• prisons
• brigs
• bastilles
• tolbooths
• tanks
• jailhouses
• lockups
• hocks
• cages
• jugs
• pokeys
• bridewells
• coops
• cells
• guardrooms
• clinks
• cans
• nicks
• stirs
• joints
• wards
• slammers
• slams
• training schools
• reform schools
• holds
• blocks
• guardhouses
• holes
• keeps
• hulks
• glasshouses
• dungeons
• reformatories
• oubliettes

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of concentration camps

The Schloss family was betrayed and sent to concentration camps in 1944. —Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 5 Jan. 2026

Just like the Nazis tried to hide sites in Germany during World War II, those concentration camps that ended up mass murdering six million Jews, this is no different, and the public does not know what’s really happening. —Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 1 Jan. 2026

The director’s grandfather was liberated from German concentration camps and escaped communist Poland to start a new life in Australia. —Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 1 Dec. 2025

Items that would have been up for auction included letters written by prisoners in concentration camps, as well as Gestapo index cards and other perpetrator documents, The Associated Press reported, citing German news agency dpa. —Alex Nitzberg, FOXNews.com, 17 Nov. 2025

The Nazis used pink triangle badges to brand gay men in concentration camps. —Kate Sosin, Them., 31 Oct. 2025

What To Know According to the Anti-Deformation League (ADL), the Totenkopf was adopted by the SS and was particularly associated with the SS-Totenkopfverbande, which was responsible for guarding concentration camps. —Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025

The Warsaw doctors likewise wrote about patients whose hearts failed after they were fed; when Allied soldiers liberated the concentration camps, large numbers of emaciated people died after being given high-calorie foods such as chocolate. —Clayton Dalton, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2025

The show also sees Watkins expose Gein to disturbing material, such as photos from concentration camps and books about notorious Nazi war criminal Ilse Koch (played by Vicky Krieps), who, as Gein would go on to do, allegedly collected human skin and body parts. —Allison Degrushe, Entertainment Weekly, 7 Oct. 2025