How to Use death camp in a Sentence

death camp

noun
  • All the while, there are those flashbacks to the death camps.
    Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2020
  • Or how about the Nazi death camp guard living in Queens?
    Fox News, 23 Aug. 2018
  • The virtual tour of the Auschwitz death camp begins at the main gate.
    Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2022
  • His unit was part of the liberation of the Dachau death camp.
    Melanie Laughman, The Enquirer, 4 July 2022
  • Hinrichsen was killed at the Auschwitz death camp in 1942.
    Star Tribune, 13 Jan. 2021
  • Among them is 90-year-old Eva Szepesi, a survivor of the Auschwitz death camp.
    Kirsten Grieshaber, ajc, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The play ends with a list of the death camps and the relatives who died in them or otherwise in the wake of the Anschluss.
    Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Kim was 1 month old when his family was moved to a Khmer Rouge death camp.
    Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022
  • Critics say the term applies only to the Nazi death camps where millions of Jews were killed.
    Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimes.com, 22 June 2019
  • Tweeted pictures of death camps, the world is crumbling.
    Fox News, 24 June 2018
  • Signs in downtown Krakow feature bus tours to the infamous Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, an hour’s drive to the west. .
    Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2022
  • They were deported from their homes by rail to Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps in less than two months in mid-1944.
    Washington Post, 19 Jan. 2020
  • Clary was kept captive for 31 months in the Nazi concentration and death camp.
    Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2022
  • Leon Scharzbaum, a survivor of the Nazis’ death camp at Auschwitz and a lifelong fighter for justice for the victims of the Holocaust, has died at 101.
    NBC News, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Get a grip: The president’s critics are not being rounded up and sent to death camps.
    David Harsanyi, National Review, 10 Feb. 2020
  • As the students stepped inside a cattle car used to transport Jews to the death camp, their mouths began to open wide as if to ask, What...
    Diane Cole, WSJ, 12 Apr. 2019
  • Thousands of people usually take part in the march on the grounds of the former Auschwitz death camp, which had been run by Germany, in Poland.
    Laurie Kellman, Star Tribune, 8 Apr. 2021
  • How should the court view the issue if it were raised by a descendant of a Holocaust survivor photographed in a Nazi death camp?
    BostonGlobe.com, 1 Nov. 2021
  • All these decades later, stark memories of the German death camp creep back to van Leenen in his sleep.
    Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Her sister died in Auschwitz, the Nazis’ most notorious death camp.
    oregonlive, 4 Feb. 2020
  • In the documentary series, the infamous death camp will be portrayed through the eyes of the rebels and survivors.
    Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 20 Mar. 2023
  • His guest, Cohen, was sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp after she and her family were forced from their home.
    Kathryn Watson, CBS News, 7 Feb. 2023
  • For most of them, the destination was Auschwitz, the Nazi death camp in Poland, where the majority perished in the gas chambers.
    Emily Langer, Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2020
  • Josef Mengele, the Nazi death camp doctor, presided over the selection process.
    Neil Genzlinger, New York Times, 15 Sep. 2023
  • By March, its residents were being taken to Belzec, the first Nazi death camp to use gas chambers and one of the deadliest.
    Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Their motive: to warn the world of the mass slaughter underway in a death camp whose existence was, at that time, barely known.
    Jonathan Freedland, Time, 29 Dec. 2022
  • Within a month the Nazis started deportations to death camps and took away our rabbi.
    Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 16 Jan. 2024
  • More than half were unable to identify the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, and 11 percent believed that Jews caused the Holocaust.
    NBC News, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Her father, already in poor health from a heart attack just before the invasion, was sent to a death camp in April 1942 and murdered there.
    New York Times, 8 Apr. 2022
  • The movie dramatizes Haft's experience in Auschwitz, a central part of the Nazi death camp system.
    Darlene Superville, USA TODAY, 28 Apr. 2022

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