death camp
noun
: a concentration camp in which large numbers of prisoners are systematically killed
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Her mother and sister were murdered at Stutthof, a notorious death camp in Poland.
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Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 June 2024
At a Holocaust museum in Atlanta, staff members had typically ended their tours by saying that many survivors of the death camps immigrated to Palestine.
—Marc Tracy, New York Times, 3 June 2024
German soccer officials said Monday that none of the parties involved in producing the controversial jerseys initially detected any semblance between its design and the aesthetic of the nationalist party responsible for World War II and genocidal death camps.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 2 Apr. 2024
Of the nearly 20,000 people sent between 1975 and 1979 to what was known as the S-21 death camp, the Khmer Rouge’s most notorious torture center, only about a dozen survived.
—Lucy McKeon, New York Times, 3 June 2024
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Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 15 June 2024
At a Holocaust museum in Atlanta, staff members had typically ended their tours by saying that many survivors of the death camps immigrated to Palestine.
—Marc Tracy, New York Times, 3 June 2024
German soccer officials said Monday that none of the parties involved in producing the controversial jerseys initially detected any semblance between its design and the aesthetic of the nationalist party responsible for World War II and genocidal death camps.
—Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News, 2 Apr. 2024
Of the nearly 20,000 people sent between 1975 and 1979 to what was known as the S-21 death camp, the Khmer Rouge’s most notorious torture center, only about a dozen survived.
—Lucy McKeon, New York Times, 3 June 2024
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“Death camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/death%20camp. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.
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