death camp
noun
: a concentration camp in which large numbers of prisoners are systematically killed
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Meanwhile, Harry’s biological mother Rose survived half a dozen death camps and miles of death marches in the snow.
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Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Apr. 2024
But this idyllic little complex shares a wall of concrete with the death camp next door.
—Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2024
On the other side of their garden wall, beyond the barbed wire, is the death camp Auschwitz.
—Hazlitt, 6 Mar. 2024
Glazer’s stunt gave Liu room to compare the wall in the West Bank separating Israeli settlers and Palestinians to the wall between the Höss home and the Nazi death camp next door.
—Armond White, National Review, 20 Mar. 2024
There were more than 40 camps, including the death camp, Auschwitz II, next to which the Höss family lived, as depicted in The Zone of Interest, which is set in 1943.
—Livia Paccariè, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2024
Many Jews who hadn’t already escaped perished in Nazi death camps, including Lilly’s sister and mother in Auschwitz, the family said.
—Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2024
No Moroccan Jew was sent to the Nazi death camps under his watch, though some 2,100 were interned at Vichy work camps in the Sahara as political prisoners who opposed the collaborationist regime.
—Theo Zenou, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024
People around the world decry antisemitism Saturday At the site of the Auschwitz camp, a group of about 20 survivors of various death camps are set to gather Saturday, lay wreaths and say prayers to memorialize the lives lost.
—USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2024
Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Apr. 2024
But this idyllic little complex shares a wall of concrete with the death camp next door.
—Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2024
On the other side of their garden wall, beyond the barbed wire, is the death camp Auschwitz.
—Hazlitt, 6 Mar. 2024
Glazer’s stunt gave Liu room to compare the wall in the West Bank separating Israeli settlers and Palestinians to the wall between the Höss home and the Nazi death camp next door.
—Armond White, National Review, 20 Mar. 2024
There were more than 40 camps, including the death camp, Auschwitz II, next to which the Höss family lived, as depicted in The Zone of Interest, which is set in 1943.
—Livia Paccariè, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Mar. 2024
Many Jews who hadn’t already escaped perished in Nazi death camps, including Lilly’s sister and mother in Auschwitz, the family said.
—Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2024
No Moroccan Jew was sent to the Nazi death camps under his watch, though some 2,100 were interned at Vichy work camps in the Sahara as political prisoners who opposed the collaborationist regime.
—Theo Zenou, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2024
People around the world decry antisemitism Saturday At the site of the Auschwitz camp, a group of about 20 survivors of various death camps are set to gather Saturday, lay wreaths and say prayers to memorialize the lives lost.
—USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2024
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