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a type of prison where large numbers of people who are not soldiers are kept during a war and are usually forced to live in very bad conditions
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The play strongly suggests that its gay and Jewish characters are doomed to perish in concentration camps after Hitler comes to power.
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Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 7 June 2024
Westerbork became a site where Jews (including my family) were temporarily held before deportation to killing centers and other concentration camps.
—Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2024
As cremation is prohibited in the Jewish faith, Zebco constructs the country’s first incinerator using, grimly, the schematics from an actual concentration camp.
—Amy Nicholson, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
Rabbi Joseph Polak, a Boston University assistant adjunct professor of health law who survived the concentration camps as a child, said one dilemma involved a patient in excruciating pain.
—Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2024
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Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 7 June 2024
Westerbork became a site where Jews (including my family) were temporarily held before deportation to killing centers and other concentration camps.
—Linda Chase, Sun Sentinel, 5 Aug. 2024
As cremation is prohibited in the Jewish faith, Zebco constructs the country’s first incinerator using, grimly, the schematics from an actual concentration camp.
—Amy Nicholson, Washington Post, 4 July 2024
Rabbi Joseph Polak, a Boston University assistant adjunct professor of health law who survived the concentration camps as a child, said one dilemma involved a patient in excruciating pain.
—Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2024
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