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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

I listen to a tour guide as she tells a group of schoolchildren about the Treblinka-2 extermination camp.

From BBC Jan. 27, 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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