death camp

noun

1. a concentration camp in which the inmates are unlikely to survive or to which they have been sent to be executed.

death camp

noun

1. a concentration camp in which the conditions are so brutal that few prisoners survive, or one to which prisoners are sent for execution

Word History and Origins

Origin of death camp¹

First recorded in 1940–45

Example Sentences

This rhetoric doesn’t just protect fascists; it suppresses dissent, normalizes torture, and evokes the atrocities of death camps and crematoriums.

From Salon

War broke out and Aboriginal people were hunted across the island, the survivors rounded up and sent to what have been described as death camps.

From BBC

Dr Ruth never saw her parents after leaving for Switzerland and believed they were killed in the gas chambers of Auschwitz - a Nazi death camp.

From BBC

The vast majority of Jews deported from the Netherlands were shipped directly to death camps, Auschwitz and Sobibor, where they were killed on arrival.

From New York Times

At a Holocaust museum in Atlanta, staff members had typically ended their tours by saying that many survivors of the death camps immigrated to Palestine.

From New York Times