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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 camps
In 1943, the United States government administered a questionnaire to people of Japanese descent who had been confined to wartime concentration camps in California, Idaho, Arizona, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, and Arkansas.
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Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
Soon after, he was hired as a war crimes investigator and visited concentration camps during the World War II liberation to document Nazi crimes.
—Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 14 Apr. 2026
The movie includes footage of real historical tragedies — harrowing video from liberated concentration camps — along with contemporaneous ones, like the crash of PSA Flight 182, which happened less than two months before Faces of Death was released.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2026
Prager was imprisoned in the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2026
Some like Sarkar equated a detention center in Dublin to the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II or to the Jewish concentration camps of Nazi Germany.
—Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2026
Historians say Lutz helped prevent half of the Jewish population of Budapest from being sent to Nazi concentration camps.
—Adam Harrington, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
Language comparing detention facilities to concentration camps has been controversial around the country.
—Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2026
On these iron stones are the names of people who had lived in these houses and were killed by Nazis in Auschwitz or other concentration camps.
—Daniel D'addario, Variety, 19 Mar. 2026
Hua Hsu, New Yorker, 20 Apr. 2026
Soon after, he was hired as a war crimes investigator and visited concentration camps during the World War II liberation to document Nazi crimes.
—Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 14 Apr. 2026
The movie includes footage of real historical tragedies — harrowing video from liberated concentration camps — along with contemporaneous ones, like the crash of PSA Flight 182, which happened less than two months before Faces of Death was released.
—Louis Peitzman, Vulture, 10 Apr. 2026
Prager was imprisoned in the Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Apr. 2026
Some like Sarkar equated a detention center in Dublin to the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II or to the Jewish concentration camps of Nazi Germany.
—Chase Hunter, Mercury News, 8 Apr. 2026
Historians say Lutz helped prevent half of the Jewish population of Budapest from being sent to Nazi concentration camps.
—Adam Harrington, CBS News, 8 Apr. 2026
Language comparing detention facilities to concentration camps has been controversial around the country.
—Ryan Gillespie, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 Apr. 2026
On these iron stones are the names of people who had lived in these houses and were killed by Nazis in Auschwitz or other concentration camps.
—Daniel D'addario, Variety, 19 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for concentration camps
big houses
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However, a lot of big houses have been built on smallish lots.—
Richard Dahlberg,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Mar. 2026
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Wooden signs dot roadsides advertising homes from the $300,000s for a townhome to over $1 million for big houses in the most desirable suburban neighborhoods.—
Jonathan J. Cooper,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Mar. 2026
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“Concentration camps.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concentration%20camps. Accessed 23 Apr. 2026.
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