death camp
noun
: a concentration camp in which large numbers of prisoners are systematically killed
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Of the nearly 20,000 people sent between 1975 and 1979 to what was known as the S-21 death camp, the Khmer Rouge’s most notorious torture center, only about a dozen survived.
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Lucy McKeon, New York Times, 3 June 2024
History was ruptured in the 1950s; how could life go on after the revelation of World War II death camps and the creation of a bomb that could incinerate a city’s population with a single blast?
—Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2024
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.
—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
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Lucy McKeon, New York Times, 3 June 2024
History was ruptured in the 1950s; how could life go on after the revelation of World War II death camps and the creation of a bomb that could incinerate a city’s population with a single blast?
—Lorraine Berry, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2024
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.
—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
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“Death camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/death%20camp. Accessed 9 Jun. 2024.
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