NOUN
- a penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of war are confined (usually under harsh conditions)
- a situation characterized by crowding and extremely harsh conditions
How To Use concentration camp In A Sentence
- Are these, you wonder, some of the 18,000 Jews from the concentration camp of Majdanek, near Lublin, machine gunned to death Nov. 3, 1943? Meditations on History
- The idea was to talk to survivors of life's hardships, from concentration camp victims to cancer sufferers.
- By the time Hiss was offering his secrets to Stalin's agents, the news about the gulags - vast concentration camps which slaughtered over 15 million innocent people - was out and beyond dispute.
- “At the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945, the Americans set up a display table to show Nazi atrocities,” Denier Bud began miasmically as the camera panned over the familiar objects: “A lot of bogus items, tattooed skin supposedly taken off bodies, a supposedly human skin lampshade, which in reality is just a basic lampshade, but they really went over the edge of dumb when they put this on the table.” The Lampshade
- Rep. Paul's used of the term "concentration camp" to refer to the Hamas run Gaza Strip was a loaded phrase fraught with bitter memory in Jewish history. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
- The Auschwitz concentration camp always remind the world of the holocaust.
- Not out of hatred but out of love for humanity, King condemned an American military campaign that sent its soldiers "to slaughter men, women and children" and construct "concentration camps we call fortified hamlets. Scott Kurashige: Obama's Crisis and MLK's Hard Truths
- A harrowing account of an unfinished documentary about the liberation of concentration camps. Times, Sunday Times
- Of the lumpen masses, 1.5 million died in concentration camps and 1.3 million in the war against the outside world.
- He lives almost entirely in the past, remembering life before the war and during his hellish time in a concentration camp.