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death camp

NOUN
concentration camp where prisoners are systematically killed
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Only recently, he spent €20,000 of his own to acquire the oeuvre of a Czech composer, who died at a death camp, from his “wonderful but cash-strapped descendants.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

Several trials of Nazi camp staff have been held in recent years, spurred by the 2011 conviction of former Sobibor death camp guard John Demjanjuk, despite no proof he had directly killed anyone.

From Barron's • Nov. 24, 2025

Under an enormous, white tent that covered the death camp entrance, the director of the Auschwitz museum, Piotr Cywinski, issued a plea to protect the memory of what had happened, as the survivors died out.

From BBC • Jan. 27, 2025

Biniaz left the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp when she was 13.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 25, 2024

In the end no one was left, and the she-goats and the he-goats returned from the hills whence they had fled, and they looked in innocence at the death camp of the people.

From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya




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