Concentration Camp

Definition: Concentration Camp

Concentration Camp

Noun

1. A penal camp where political prisoners or prisoners of war are confined (usually under harsh conditions).

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Synonym: Concentration Camp

Crosswords: Concentration Camp

You have any idea what you'd have to look forward to if you stayed here? Nine chances out of ten, we'd both wind up in a concentration camp. Isn't that true, Louie? (Casablanca; writing credit: Murray Burnett; Joan Alison)

They call you Concentration Camp Ehrhardt. (To Be or Not to Be; writing credit: Melchior Lengyel; Edwin Justus Mayer)

Concentration Camp (1939)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Auschwitz Album: A Book Based upon an Album Discovered by a Concentration Camp Survivor (reference)

• Concentration camp Dachau, 1933-1945 (reference)

• Heart Mountain : Life in Wyoming's Concentration Camp (reference)

• Legacies of Dachau : The Uses and Abuses of a Concentration Camp, 1933-2001 (reference)

• Ravensbruck: Everyday Life in a Women's Concentration Camp 1935-45 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Concentration camp at Emsland, Germany - guard in watch tower outside barbed wire fence. Credit: Library of Congress.

Five starving men in German concentration camp at time of liberation by U.S. Army. Credit: Library of Congress.

Two U.S. soldiers looking at dead prisoners on railroad train at unidentified concentration camp in Germany. Credit: Library of Congress.

American soldiers with cameras making pictures of a row of dead inmates, Lager Nordhausen Concentration Camp / Myers. Credit: Library of Congress.

A Ukrainian girl prepares a meal for her family on a make shift stove in a concentration camp at Salzburg, Austria / Signal Corps photo. Credit: Library of Congress.

Roll call at a German concentration camp (from a Nazi photograph). Two prisoners in the foreground are supporting a comrade, as fainting was frequently an excuse for the guards to "liquidate" useless inmates / Joint Distribution Committee photo. Credit: Library of Congress.

These inmates of the Amphing [i.e., Ampfing] concentration camp in Germany were recently liberated by U.S. Third Army troops [...] Amphing, Germany / Signal Corps U.S. Army. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cornbread. Food for flood refugees at the Forrest City concentration camp. Arkansas. Credit: Library of Congress.

Negroes waiting for food in the Forrest City, Arkansas, concentration camp. Credit: Library of Congress.

Housing for migratory cotton workers five miles north of Corcoran, California. The famous strikers' concentration camp in 1933 was in Corcoran. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Human Rights

Korea

In 1998 a Polish newspaper reported the experiences of a woman who spent 10 years in a North Korean concentration camp before fleeing first to China and then to South Korea. (references)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

There were approximately 200 police officers, many of who are believed to have served in paramilitary groups involved in war crimes or to have served as concentration camp guards or interrogators, under investigation at year's end. (references)

Minorities

Czech Republic

The site of a former Romani concentration camp at Lety continued to be a source of controversy. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expression using "concentration camp": concentration camp prisoner. Additional references.

Albanian

kamp përqendrimi. (various references)

Arabic 

‏معتقل أسرى الحرب, ‏معسكر إعتقال. (various references)

Bulgarian 

концентрационен лагер (internment camp, prison camp). (various references)

Czech

koncentraèní tábor. (various references)

Danish

koncentrationslejer. (various references)

Dutch

concentratiekamp. (various references)

Finnish

keskitysleiri. (various references)

French

camp de concentration. (various references)

German

Konzentrationslager. (various references)

Greek 

στρατόπεδο συγκέντρωσησ. (various references)

Hebrew 

מח� �" רכוז. (various references)

Hungarian

koncentrációs tábor. (various references)

Italian

campo di concentramento (compound). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

捕虜収容所 (POW camp, prison camp), 強制収容所 , 俘虜収容所 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

きょうせいしゅうようじょ, ふりょしゅうようじょ, ほりょしゅうようじょ (POW camp, prison camp). (various references)

Manx

sleih-champ. (various references)

Pig Latin

oncentrationcay ampcay

Portuguese

campo de concentração (detention camp). (various references)

Russian 

концентрационный лагерь. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

koncentracioni logor. (various references)

Spanish

campo de concentración. (various references)

Swedish

koncentrationsläger. (various references)

Turkish

toplama kampı (internment camp). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-4 letters: concatenation, concentration, contraception, ornamentation.

-5 letters: companionate, concomitance, contaminator.