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a type of prison where large numbers of people who are not soldiers are kept during a war and are usually forced to live in very bad conditions
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Recent Examples of concentration camp
The director’s grandfather was liberated from German concentration camps and escaped communist Poland to start a new life in Australia.
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Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 1 Dec. 2025
Items that would have been up for auction included letters written by prisoners in concentration camps, as well as Gestapo index cards and other perpetrator documents, The Associated Press reported, citing German news agency dpa.
—Alex Nitzberg, FOXNews.com, 17 Nov. 2025
Roberto Benigni plays Guido, a Jewish Italian bookshop owner, sent to a concentration camp with his son.
—NPR, 15 Nov. 2025
In the book’s first half, Frankl recounts his time as a prisoner in the Nazi concentration camps, describing not only his experiences but also his observations of others.
—Big Think, 14 Nov. 2025
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The following March, Navarro—at the age of seventy-four—began a four-month sentence in a senior dorm at a federal prison camp in Miami.—
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Just a week later, Maxwell was moved to a more permissive prison camp in Texas.—
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After the father, Nathan (Paul Winfield), is arrested for stealing ham and shipped off to an unknown work camp, eldest son David Lee (Kevin Hooks) takes a journey with the family dog, Sounder, to try and find him.—
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In Oregon in 1933, Samuel Murphy is torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal work camp.—
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People were forced into labor camps in the countryside; schools and temples were turned into prisons; and paddy fields were used as execution sites.—
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Born in the then-Austro-Hungarian Empire, the 85-year-old said his family was put in a labor camp, subject to starvation.—
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Fairbanks will headline a bullpen also featuring Luke Bachar, Anthony Bender, Calvin Faucher, Andrew Nardi, Tyler Phillips and perhaps Josh White.—
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Mitchell Layton / Getty Images The Miami Marlins took a significant step towards bolstering their bullpen, agreeing to a one-year, $13 million deal with right-hander Pete Fairbanks, league sources told The Athletic’s Will Sammon.—
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“Concentration camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/concentration%20camp. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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