death camp
noun
: a concentration camp in which large numbers of prisoners are systematically killed
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In September and again in July 2024, artworks by Egon Schiele were returned by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office to the heirs of Fritz Grünbaum, a Jewish cabaret performer and art patron who was arrested in Germany in 1938 and died in the Dachau death camp.
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Patricia Failing, ARTnews.com, 21 Oct. 2024
With the film telling the real-life story of German SS officer Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig, who raised their children in a farmhouse next door to the Nazi death camp, the horrifying sounds heard from across the wall provide much of the film’s chilling impact.
—Alex Ritman, Variety, 10 Oct. 2024
His unit was part of the liberation of the Dachau death camp.
—Melanie Laughman, The Enquirer, 11 Sep. 2024
Letter bombs One of Israeli intelligence’s early manhunts focused on a mastermind of the Holocaust, the Nazi officer Adolf Eichmann, who sent millions of Jews to death camps.
—Dan De Luce, NBC News, 20 Sep. 2024
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Patricia Failing, ARTnews.com, 21 Oct. 2024
With the film telling the real-life story of German SS officer Rudolf Höss and his wife Hedwig, who raised their children in a farmhouse next door to the Nazi death camp, the horrifying sounds heard from across the wall provide much of the film’s chilling impact.
—Alex Ritman, Variety, 10 Oct. 2024
His unit was part of the liberation of the Dachau death camp.
—Melanie Laughman, The Enquirer, 11 Sep. 2024
Letter bombs One of Israeli intelligence’s early manhunts focused on a mastermind of the Holocaust, the Nazi officer Adolf Eichmann, who sent millions of Jews to death camps.
—Dan De Luce, NBC News, 20 Sep. 2024
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“Death camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/death%20camp. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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