How to Use concentration camp in a Sentence

concentration camp

noun
  • In a few weeks, the Dachau concentration camp will open.
    — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The group was later found, and Anne died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at age 15.
    — Janine Henni, People.com, 25 Feb. 2025
  • The group was later found, and Anne died at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp at age 15.
    — Janine Henni, People.com, 25 Feb. 2025
  • Anne and her sister died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
    — Mike Corder, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2022
  • The sandals were sent to the man’s nine-year-old son, living in a Utah concentration camp.
    — Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Feb. 2022
  • From there they were sent to the Jungfernhof concentration camp.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 29 Jan. 2023
  • He was even sent briefly to Dachau, a concentration camp.
    — The Economist, 24 Oct. 2019
  • As a young boy, Samet was imprisoned by the Nazis in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
    — Mallory Simon and Sara Sidner, CNN, 27 Oct. 2019
  • The Nazis destroyed much of his work and his wife perished in a concentration camp.
    — New York Times, 14 Feb. 2021
  • And a 101-year-old Nazi concentration camp guard was sentenced to prison.
    — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 28 June 2022
  • What kind of Nazi concentration camp guard would do that?
    — Will Higgins, Post-Tribune, 10 May 2018
  • Critics of the shelter plan said the staging area for the shelters looked like a concentration camp.
    — al, 23 June 2022
  • The film that, to me, in its most unflinching way, describes the Third Reich, the Holocaust, and the concentration camps.
    — Harrison Richlin, IndieWire, 29 Mar. 2025
  • Stillman's life took a dark turn at the age of 14 when she was imprisoned at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
    — The Arizona Republic, 22 Apr. 2024
  • Ivy Schamis, the teacher, had dressed the class walls with images of concentration camps and banners.
    — New York Times, 6 June 2018
  • At that concentration camp, over a million men, women and children were killed in the most heinous of ways.
    — Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2022
  • The family’s next trip was a cattle car to the concentration camp.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2020
  • In 1940, Ruth and her family were rounded up and moved to a concentration camp in Gurs, France.
    — Yael Lavie, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Shot in Sweden in 1972, the film told the tale of a clown taken to a concentration camp and tasked with walking children to gas chambers.
    — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 30 Aug. 2024
  • That they weren't killed in a concentration camp Asia called a miracle.
    — Yulia Drozd, ABC News, 20 Oct. 2023
  • Though neither was in a concentration camp, both witnessed the horrors of war.
    — Megan Becka, cleveland, 11 Apr. 2022
  • This isn’t what happens at any camp but a concentration camp.
    — Jennifer Wright, Harper's BAZAAR, 20 June 2018
  • For millions, trains took them to their deaths at concentration camps.
    — Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 6 July 2018
  • The survey found that 48% could not name a concentration camp or ghetto.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 5 June 2024
  • To her, a concentration camp is a place where captives live in daily fear of being killed.
    — David Montero, latimes.com, 28 June 2019
  • Many of the concentration camp scenes drive home the cruelty of such places, and certainly put the audience in the shoes of those who were there.
    — Amber Dowling, Variety, 2 May 2024
  • In 1944, he was transferred to Auschwitz-Birkenau, then Stutthof concentration camp, and was then sent on a death march.
    — Town & Country, 18 Jan. 2023
  • The final claim, about the concentration camp and genocide, is based on an egregious rewriting of the history of the U.S.-Dakota War.
    — Katherine Kersten, Star Tribune, 24 June 2021
  • The Dachau concentration camp is one of many sites throughout Germany that now stands in this spirit.
    — Jasper Bastian, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2020
  • But in fact, Franklin Roosevelt himself referred to them as concentration camps.
    — Ari Daniel, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Apr. 2025

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