How to Use concentration camp in a Sentence

concentration camp

noun
  • Slightly more than half could name at least one concentration camp or ghetto.
    Ben Sales, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Sep. 2020
  • The Dachau concentration camp is one of many sites throughout Germany that now stands in this spirit.
    Jasper Bastian, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Sep. 2020
  • Users donned concentration camp garb, and pretended to be deceased victims of Nazi-era horrors.
    Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2020
  • Jackson also accepted an offer from a Holocaust survivor to visit the site of a concentration camp in Poland.
    Rob Maaddi, Star Tribune, 9 Sep. 2020
  • Asked to describe Auschwitz, the largest Nazi concentration camp, 64% described it correctly.
    Ben Sales, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Sep. 2020
  • The family was arrested in 1944, and Frank later died of typhus in a concentration camp.
    Tess Ware, USA TODAY, 13 Nov. 2024
  • Such was also the case for many artists and musicians imprisoned at the hybrid ghetto and concentration camp of Terezin (or Theresienstadt).
    Diane Cole, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2020
  • In a few weeks, the Dachau concentration camp will open.
    Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 19 Dec. 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • Critics of the shelter plan said the staging area for the shelters looked like a concentration camp.
    al, 23 June 2022
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The survey found that 48% could not name a concentration camp or ghetto.
    Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 5 June 2024
  • 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
  • Their journey began in Italy and concludes with the horror of the Dachau concentration camp.
    Brian Lowry, CNN, 11 Nov. 2020
  • The rest were deported to Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany, where 47 died in the next two months.
    New York Times, 16 Mar. 2022
  • He was sent to the Pankratz prison in Prague and later transferred to the Buchenwald concentration camp in central Germany.
    Dan Falk, Ars Technica, 9 Dec. 2021
  • In 1939, when he is supposed to be released, Anna and Helene go to the prison to pick him up, but they are told he has been sent to a concentration camp.
    John Ganz, Harper's Magazine, 22 May 2024
  • The third and final concentration camp I was deported to was Neustadt-Glewe.
    Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 8 July 2024
  • Guy Pearce supports as the wealthy, perhaps nefarious patron who hires him to construct a library that all too closely resembles the concentration camp Tóth survived.
    Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 2 Sep. 2024

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