How to Use death camp in a Sentence

death camp

noun
  • All the while, there are those flashbacks to the death camps.
    — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 18 Feb. 2020
  • It's not lost on me the number of priests who died at Nazi death camps.
    — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Jan. 2025
  • Belsen was not a death camp, but tens of thousands of people died anyway.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2024
  • And as the cities burned, the prisons were transformed into death camps.
    — Robin Yassin-Kassab, Time, 17 Sep. 2025
  • His unit was part of the liberation of the Dachau death camp.
    — Melanie Laughman, The Enquirer, 11 Sep. 2024
  • His unit was part of the liberation of the Dachau death camp.
    — Melanie Laughman, The Enquirer, 4 July 2022
  • The virtual tour of the Auschwitz death camp begins at the main gate.
    — Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, Discover Magazine, 31 Mar. 2022
  • Their short period on the run would be followed by the longer nightmare of death camp.
    — Nina MacLaughlin, BostonGlobe.com, 8 May 2018
  • But this idyllic little complex shares a wall of concrete with the death camp next door.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2024
  • The former Nazi death camp is about a 90-minute bus ride from Krakow.
    — Patrick Regan, chicagotribune.com, 2 Mar. 2018
  • On the other side of their garden wall, beyond the barbed wire, is the death camp Auschwitz.
    — Hazlitt, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Thousands of Jews died there or were sent from there to Auschwitz and other death camps.
    — Vanessa Gera, Chicago Tribune, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Kim was 1 month old when his family was moved to a Khmer Rouge death camp.
    — Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2022
  • The box held the remains of a victim of the infamous Auschwitz death camp.
    — Alexandro M. Luna, San Antonio Express-News, 28 Jan. 2018
  • The Nazi use of music in the death camps has many explanations.
    — Literary Hub, 17 Sep. 2025
  • But he was slammed by some critics for the only scene that depicted the horror of the death camps.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 7 Aug. 2024
  • An ordinary pleasure inside a death camp.
    — Miguel Sirgado, Miami Herald, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Critics say the term applies only to the Nazi death camps where millions of Jews were killed.
    — Molly Hennessy-Fiske, latimes.com, 22 June 2019
  • Clary was kept captive for 31 months in the Nazi concentration and death camp.
    — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 16 Nov. 2022
  • The date marks when the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp was liberated.
    — Brian Siegal, Sun Sentinel, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Her sister died in Auschwitz, the Nazis’ most notorious death camp.
    — oregonlive, 4 Feb. 2020
  • The play ends with a list of the death camps and the relatives who died in them or otherwise in the wake of the Anschluss.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Among them is 90-year-old Eva Szepesi, a survivor of the Auschwitz death camp.
    — Kirsten Grieshaber, ajc, 9 Nov. 2022
  • The horrors of Auschwitz and other Nazi death camps will soon be lost to living memory.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 24 Feb. 2024
  • At the railyard, a train full of internees bound for the death camps passes, the arms of the damned reaching through the slats of the boxcars.
    — Chris Klimek, Vulture, 23 Feb. 2024
  • All these decades later, stark memories of the German death camp creep back to van Leenen in his sleep.
    — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Only 151 survived the death camps; Sam’s parents and siblings were not among them.
    — Andrew Harris, Slate Magazine, 28 Aug. 2017
  • In the documentary series, the infamous death camp will be portrayed through the eyes of the rebels and survivors.
    — Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 20 Mar. 2023
  • They were eventually betrayed, arrested and sent to the Auschwitz death camp.
    — CBS News, 5 Jan. 2026
  • They were eventually betrayed, arrested and sent to the Auschwitz death camp.
    — Jill Lawless, Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2026

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