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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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Recent Examples of concentration camp
According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, at least 91 Jews were killed, 30,000 German Jewish men were arrested and sent to concentration camps and hundreds of synagogues were set on fire during the events of November 9 and 10 1938.
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Thomas Schlachter, CNN, 13 July 2024
Abend says many attendees have been people who visited concentration camps or have connections to people who were prisoners in those camps.
—Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2024
On the hills above Goethe’s Weimer sits the Buchenwald concentration camp; in Erfurt, Topf & Sons manufactured ovens and gas-chamber-ventilation systems for the death camps.
—Alec MacGillis, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2024
However, the prosecution quickly puts paid to Quisling’s claim via the chilling testimony of Norwegian Jewish concentration camp survivor, Dr. Leo Eitinger (Benjamin L. Røsler).
—Alissa Simon, Variety, 9 Sep. 2024
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Thomas Schlachter, CNN, 13 July 2024
Abend says many attendees have been people who visited concentration camps or have connections to people who were prisoners in those camps.
—Sarah Lapidus, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2024
On the hills above Goethe’s Weimer sits the Buchenwald concentration camp; in Erfurt, Topf & Sons manufactured ovens and gas-chamber-ventilation systems for the death camps.
—Alec MacGillis, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2024
However, the prosecution quickly puts paid to Quisling’s claim via the chilling testimony of Norwegian Jewish concentration camp survivor, Dr. Leo Eitinger (Benjamin L. Røsler).
—Alissa Simon, Variety, 9 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for concentration camp
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Scarborough died July 28, 1942, and was buried along with other deceased prisoners in the local Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery in Common Grave 215, according to prison camp and other historical records.Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2024
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Navalny died suddenly in a prison camp in the Russian Arctic in February.Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2024
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Apes together are strong enough to break out of an abusive medical-testing laboratory, establish a new community of their own in the California woods, fend off humans who want to siphon their resources, and fight back against a rogue military unit that has trapped apes in work camps.Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 15 Aug. 2024
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Li was expelled from the Party and imprisoned in work camps from 1959 to 1978, including eight years in solitary confinement, after criticizing Mao’s disastrous effort to modernize the agricultural sector using communist ideologies, causing a catastrophic famine.Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 4 Sep. 2024
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There are regulations to make sure Virginia's 235 migrant labor camps have safe working conditions.Karri Peifer, Axios, 17 Oct. 2024
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In July 1942, the Nazis ordered Anne’s older sister, Margot, to return to Germany and report to a labor camp.Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
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Scott would fortify the backend of New York's bullpen.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2024
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Since removing Flaherty in the second, Roberts had managed his bullpen ruthlessly.Nicholas Dawidoff, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
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“Concentration camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concentration%20camp. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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