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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
The tattoo of a Totenkopf, the death’s head emblem associated with Nazi concentration camp guards?
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Megan McArdle,
Washington Post,
14 June 2026
Anne and her family were arrested by the Gestapo in 1944 and taken to concentration camps.
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Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
14 June 2026
Poland 🇵🇱 The founder of home computing pioneer Commodore spent World War II in a concentration camp before coming to America in 1947.
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Alex Knapp,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
One saw his entire family killed in a concentration camp and then wrote a memoir documenting his darkest moments.
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Lauren Costantino,
Miami Herald,
3 June 2026
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Megan McArdle,
Washington Post,
14 June 2026
Anne and her family were arrested by the Gestapo in 1944 and taken to concentration camps.
—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
14 June 2026
Poland 🇵🇱 The founder of home computing pioneer Commodore spent World War II in a concentration camp before coming to America in 1947.
—
Alex Knapp,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2026
One saw his entire family killed in a concentration camp and then wrote a memoir documenting his darkest moments.
—
Lauren Costantino,
Miami Herald,
3 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for concentration camp
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Unlike the public perception often created by movies and television, daily life at a federal prison camp revolves around work assignments, educational programming, treatment, and institutional responsibilities.
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Samuel Murphy is a war veteran who has been busted and sent to a notorious prison camp.
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Mike Braun opened the Speedway Slammer at an Indiana prison, Jim Pillen opened the Cornhusker Clink at a Nebraska work camp, and Jeff Landry opened the Louisiana Lockup in a disused wing of Angola penitentiary.
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And Nazi officials had promised Auschwitz’s Buna work camp thousands of skilled Jewish laborers – a quota that was not met because of the Rosenstrasse Jews’ release.
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Mary Nelson, founder of Mary Nelson Youth Center, grew up in the migrant labor camps of central New York, caring for her younger siblings at only eight years old while her family worked the fields.
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He was convicted and sentenced to 13 years in a labor camp.
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With the bullpen overworked from a busy week — which featured a doubleheader Wednesday — manager Craig Counsell said Friday wasn’t the time to be aggressive.
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Opposing starters are going deep, and bullpens are staying well rested.
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