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

Outside of learning about ancient concentration camps and historic serial killers while Phaedra beams, the moment without Porsha serves as a Hail Mary pass for Shamea to try to salvage some of the damage from the night before. — Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 20 July 2026

Maryland is home to a large Jewish community, many of whom had significant numbers of relatives who were butchered by the SS in concentration camps. — Bobby Zirkin, Baltimore Sun, 9 July 2026

More than 250 were documented to have died in concentration camps. — Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board, The Orlando Sentinel, 28 June 2026

Other relatives were deported to the concentration camps Theresienstadt and Auschwitz. — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 25 June 2026

The Nazis, three years in power, had begun operating Germany’s first concentration camps. — Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 19 June 2026

Daniel Oren, 18, of Hollywood, has always felt a special connection to his great-grandfather, who survived by hiding out in the forest and escaping concentration camps. — Jessica Tzikas, Sun Sentinel, 18 June 2026

Anne and her family were arrested by the Gestapo in 1944 and taken to concentration camps. — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 14 June 2026

At 15, Leon Schagrin was deported from occupied Poland to multiple ghettos and concentration camps. — Lauren Costantino, Miami Herald, 3 June 2026