concentration camp
noun
: a place where large numbers of people (such as prisoners of war, political prisoners, refugees, or the members of an ethnic or religious minority) are detained or confined under armed guard
—used especially in reference to camps created by the Nazis in World War II for the internment and persecution of Jews and other prisoners
The Nazi soldiers hauled [Mordechai] Strigler off to a concentration camp, and carved swastikas into his cheeks and forehead with a razor blade. Over the next five years, he was sent from one concentration camp or slave-labor camp to another.—
David Remnick
David RemnickShe ended up dying in a concentration camp, just a few months before she would have been liberated.—Marilyn Reynolds
Marilyn ReynoldsThe V2 killed thousands of British civilians while 20,000 concentration camp inmates died as slave labourers during its manufacture in the closing stages of the second world war.—Anna Tomforde et al.
see also death camp
Anna Tomforde et al.Examples of concentration camp in a Sentence
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The film will bring to life the magical world that Fredy Hirsch created for Jewish children, first in Prague under the Nuremberg Laws, and later as a prisoner in the concentration camps of Terezin and Auschwitz.
—Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 28 May 2025
At the royal event on Tuesday, May 20, the Princess of Wales shared a warm embrace with Steven Frank, a man originally from Amsterdam who lived through multiple concentration camps as a child.
—Jillian Frankel, People.com, 20 May 2025
In spring 1945, the Lutetia hotel in Paris became a gathering place for those returning from the concentration camps.
—Sylvie Corbet, Sun Sentinel, 6 May 2025
Trump's registration rule is ripped right out of the authoritarian playbook, and in the past this road has led to internment and concentration camps.
—David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2025
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Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 28 May 2025
At the royal event on Tuesday, May 20, the Princess of Wales shared a warm embrace with Steven Frank, a man originally from Amsterdam who lived through multiple concentration camps as a child.
—Jillian Frankel, People.com, 20 May 2025
In spring 1945, the Lutetia hotel in Paris became a gathering place for those returning from the concentration camps.
—Sylvie Corbet, Sun Sentinel, 6 May 2025
Trump's registration rule is ripped right out of the authoritarian playbook, and in the past this road has led to internment and concentration camps.
—David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2025
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“Concentration camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/concentration%20camp. Accessed 7 Jun. 2025.
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