concentration camp

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Local activist Luciel Adams also warns that the project should be respectful of a rocky peninsula near Lüderitz that was once the site of the Shark Island concentration camp.

From BBC • Mar. 11, 2026

I often use the Nazi example because it’s almost the only concentration camp system people know, even though there have been a bunch of different ones.

From Slate • Feb. 17, 2026

On some sites such content was posted once a minute, said Groschek, who works at memorial sites in Hamburg, including the Neuengamme concentration camp.

From Barron's • Jan. 27, 2026

Can you tell me more about how integrated the concentration camp system is with the “normal,” “non-emergency” parts of the carceral state?

From Salon • Jan. 26, 2026

On April 12, 1945, when the German guards fled from the Red Army as it approached the concentration camp, Nina and her fellow prisoners cut the lock off the gate and let themselves out.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein