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concentration camp

[kon-suhn-trey-shuhn kamp] / ˌkɒn sənˈtreɪ ʃən ˌkæmp /


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On her second visit, in the early 1980s, she aimed to free herself from what she called the concentration camp of her own mind.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

She was detained in the Soviet gulag system, then later held in the Nazi concentration camp system.

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

Holocaust Memorial Day is held on the same day every year, marking the liberation date of the largest Nazi concentration camp complex, Auschwitz-Birkenau, on 27 January 1945.

From BBC • Jan. 27, 2026

When Bert Lewyn, the Jewish teenager forced to work in a Berlin munitions factory, discovered that he was also marked for deportation to a concentration camp, he went into hiding.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti




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