: a concentration camp in which large numbers of prisoners are systematically killed
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Recent Examples on the WebDespite grinding deprivations and life-draining losses, it was not openly designed as a death camp. Cynthia Ozick, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2022 All who entered the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz between the spring of 1943 and January 1945 observed, and all too often suffered, the evil that lurked inside SS Captain Dr. Josef Mengele (1911-1979). Diane Cole, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2022 La Jolla Playhouse presents the world premiere of Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich’s drama about the recent discovery of a 1945-era photo album that revealed the private lives of the officers and staff at the Nazis’ Auschwitz death camp in Poland.San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Aug. 2022 Kim was 1 month old when his family was moved to a Khmer Rouge death camp.Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022 His unit was part of the liberation of the Dachau death camp. Melanie Laughman, The Enquirer, 4 July 2022 Karski was recruited by the resistance to survey the horrors of the Warsaw Ghetto, visit a death camp set up by the Nazis in Poland and travel with the news to London and Washington. Peter Marks, Washington Post, 19 May 2022 The last surviving Soviet soldier involved in the liberation of the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz. Bernard Mcghee, ajc, 10 Dec. 2021 As in other camps, Jewish prisoners were singled out at Sachsenhausen for particularly harsh treatment, and most who remained alive by 1942 were sent to the Auschwitz death camp. Kirsten Grieshaber, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2022 See More