death camp
noun
: a concentration camp in which large numbers of prisoners are systematically killed
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Near the end of the war, his father, Sam, emerged from hiding in a Polish forest and searched for his wife, Esther, in the Lodz Ghetto but learned she had been sent to the Chelmno death camp.
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Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 21 July 2025
But a historic South Florida case that lasted for years suggests otherwise, because of the extraordinary due process afforded the defendant: Feodor Fedorenko, a former guard at the infamous Treblinka death camp in Poland, where the Nazis killed about 900,000 Jews during the Holocaust.
—Miami Herald, 7 July 2025
The only threat here is Israel's brutal enforcement of a blockade, and its genocide of the Palestinian people that has turned Gaza into a death camp.
—Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 June 2025
Eight decades earlier, Roth was a prisoner in the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany, having already survived the Auschwitz death camp and, before that, a ghetto for Eastern European Jews.
—Tom Dreisbach, NPR, 30 June 2025
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Lois K. Solomon, Sun Sentinel, 21 July 2025
But a historic South Florida case that lasted for years suggests otherwise, because of the extraordinary due process afforded the defendant: Feodor Fedorenko, a former guard at the infamous Treblinka death camp in Poland, where the Nazis killed about 900,000 Jews during the Holocaust.
—Miami Herald, 7 July 2025
The only threat here is Israel's brutal enforcement of a blockade, and its genocide of the Palestinian people that has turned Gaza into a death camp.
—Giulia Carbonaro, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 June 2025
Eight decades earlier, Roth was a prisoner in the Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany, having already survived the Auschwitz death camp and, before that, a ghetto for Eastern European Jews.
—Tom Dreisbach, NPR, 30 June 2025
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“Death camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/death%20camp. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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