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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

Exactly one year later the Red Army entered the gates of the Auschwitz death camp.

From BBC • Jan. 27, 2025

His uncle Messaoud El Medioni was the famous musician known as Saoud L’Oranais, a leading practitioner of andalous who was deported by the Germans to the Sobibor death camp in 1943.

From New York Times • Apr. 15, 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