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 final pages offered a physical and philosophical account of the concentration camps that was as disturbing in its implications as the newsreels shown in theatres at the war’s end. — David Denby, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026

Xinjiang is home to many Uyghurs, a Muslim minority that the Chinese government has subjected to surveillance, forced labor and detainment in concentration camps. — Hailey Wang, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2026

From 1941, when the systematic killing of Jews and other groups began as part of Nazi government policy, until the liberation of concentration camps in 1945, six million Jews would be killed. — Tracy Grant, Encyclopedia Britannica, 7 Aug. 2026

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