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extermination camp

NOUN
death camp
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Later in 1944, Grossman arrived at the extermination camp of Treblinka in Poland.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

She is presented as Hannelore Kaufmann, a 13-year-old Berliner who purportedly died at the Auschwitz extermination camp, of which the 1945 liberation by Soviet troops is commemorated on Tuesday.

From Barron's ● Jan. 27, 2026

Born in 1926, Mr Turski survived the Lodz Ghetto, extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau and two death marches as a teenager.

From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2025

Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski wrote on X that “When referring to the Nazi extermination camp in Auschwitz, it should be noted that it was established under German occupation.”

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 28, 2024

What Glazer has retained is the novel’s intimate juxtaposition between the horrors of the extermination camp and the everyday lives of its non-inmate characters.

From New York Times ● Dec. 14, 2023




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