death camp
noun
: a concentration camp in which large numbers of prisoners are systematically killed
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In his sonorous, sandpaper voice, Cohen sang what could be interpreted as a ‘til-death-do-us-part love song, but the lyrics were inspired by death camp prisoners who were led to crematoriums accompanied by a string ensemble during the Holocaust.
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Marcia Luttrell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2024
But despite its obsession with Nazis and death camps, television has yet to forge a thoughtful connection between this history and the matter that consumes the consciences of Jews in the present.
—TIME, 8 May 2024
Several thousand Jews, including Holocaust survivors personally affected by the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, walked through the former Auschwitz Nazi German death camp on Monday for the annual March of the Living ceremony in Poland.
—Fox News, 6 May 2024
Still, when the book debuted, many readers were concerned by its romanticized portrayal of life in a Nazi death camp.
—Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
Meanwhile, Harry’s biological mother Rose survived half a dozen death camps and miles of death marches in the snow.
—Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Apr. 2024
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
On the other side of their garden wall, beyond the barbed wire, is the death camp Auschwitz.
—Hazlitt, 6 Mar. 2024
Glazer’s stunt gave Liu room to compare the wall in the West Bank separating Israeli settlers and Palestinians to the wall between the Höss home and the Nazi death camp next door.
—Armond White, National Review, 20 Mar. 2024
Marcia Luttrell, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2024
But despite its obsession with Nazis and death camps, television has yet to forge a thoughtful connection between this history and the matter that consumes the consciences of Jews in the present.
—TIME, 8 May 2024
Several thousand Jews, including Holocaust survivors personally affected by the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel, walked through the former Auschwitz Nazi German death camp on Monday for the annual March of the Living ceremony in Poland.
—Fox News, 6 May 2024
Still, when the book debuted, many readers were concerned by its romanticized portrayal of life in a Nazi death camp.
—Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
Meanwhile, Harry’s biological mother Rose survived half a dozen death camps and miles of death marches in the snow.
—Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Apr. 2024
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
On the other side of their garden wall, beyond the barbed wire, is the death camp Auschwitz.
—Hazlitt, 6 Mar. 2024
Glazer’s stunt gave Liu room to compare the wall in the West Bank separating Israeli settlers and Palestinians to the wall between the Höss home and the Nazi death camp next door.
—Armond White, National Review, 20 Mar. 2024
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