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concentration camp

noun as in prison camp for prisoners of war or political prisoners

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The son of a Jewish fur trader who died in a Nazi concentration camp during World War II, as a lawyer Badinter built a reputation defending clients his peers wouldn't touch.

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After the exhibition’s stark presentation on Jewish ghettos, Nazi killing squads and concentration camps, the class photo reappears.

The Germans forced survivors into concentration camps, seizing their lands for the state and selling vast tracts to white settlers at heavily subsidized rates, according to historians and researchers.

Sheinbaum evoked the Holocaust, saying “many of my relatives ... were exterminated in concentration camps.”

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She once used a concentration camp’s children as movie extras, then denied knowing they were later taken away by train and killed.

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