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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
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.
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Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
Simmons immediately recalled his mother’s story in the Dachau concentration camp, noting that the past is anything but the past and that educational resources are vital toward breaking the cycle of antisemitic language and tropes.
—Brandon Shaw, HollywoodReporter, 22 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
That’s because Cincinnati welcomed concentration camp survivors via Union Terminal, the museum’s home since 1990, and because Holocaust survivors are members of Cincinnati’s Jewish community.
—Patricia Gallagher Newberry, Cincinnati Enquirer, 17 Oct. 2025
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Marni Rose McFall, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
Simmons immediately recalled his mother’s story in the Dachau concentration camp, noting that the past is anything but the past and that educational resources are vital toward breaking the cycle of antisemitic language and tropes.
—Brandon Shaw, HollywoodReporter, 22 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
That’s because Cincinnati welcomed concentration camp survivors via Union Terminal, the museum’s home since 1990, and because Holocaust survivors are members of Cincinnati’s Jewish community.
—Patricia Gallagher Newberry, Cincinnati Enquirer, 17 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for concentration camp
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Ghislaine Maxwell, Robert Maxwell's daughter, is currently in the custody of the Federal Bureau of Prisons and is serving time at a federal prison camp in Bryan, Texas.—
Michelle Del Rey,
USA Today,
16 Oct. 2025
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Maxwell was transferred from a low-security federal prison in Florida to a minimum-security prison camp in Texas after being interviewed by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche in July.—
Khaleda Rahman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Oct. 2025
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At its peak, the prison held 3,000 inmates in 30 work camps across the island.—
Maya Duclay,
ABC News,
23 Oct. 2025
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The officials are using the existing minimum security prison work camp in McCook, located around 210 miles west of Lincoln.—
Filip Timotija,
The Hill,
20 Aug. 2025
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Some paid dearly for their dissent by losing their jobs, being sent to prison labor camps, being confined in psychiatric institutions, and/or forced into exile.—
Matthew Wills,
JSTOR Daily,
3 Oct. 2025
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The novel was inspired by Steinbeck’s journalism work, particularly for The San Francisco News, which had commissioned him to cover migrant labor camps in the Salinas valley.—
Paul Slovak
September 16,
Literary Hub,
16 Sep. 2025
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With pitching questions in both the starting rotation and the bullpen plus a huge gap at third base, New York will have plenty of spots to fill in the upcoming offseason.—
Drew VonScio,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Oct. 2025
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Not even necessarily for the beneficial bullpen vibes, though those wouldn’t hurt.—
Mirjam Swanson,
Oc Register,
29 Oct. 2025
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“Concentration camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concentration%20camp. Accessed 19 Nov. 2025.
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