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concentration camp

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

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My mother, Helen, and her family had been held in the Gurs concentration camp in Vichy-controlled France.

Her parents remained in what is now the Czech Republic and were sent to a concentration camp where they were later murdered.

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Many of the artefacts scheduled to be auctioned were said to have come from the Buchenwald and Auschwitz concentration camps.

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Many French Jews were also interned at Drancy, north of Paris, and from there deported to a concentration camp.

Between then and being imprisoned in a number of concentration camps, Mr Goldberg's brother was taken away, "his fate unknown", said the trust.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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