Noun
death camp (plural death camps)
- A prison camp in which a large number of prisoners die for various reasons, such as starvation, disease, brutality, and neglect.
2004, Jeffrey F. Addicott, Terrorism Law: The Rule of Law and the War on Terror, 2nd edition, page 117:Included in this figure, since the fall of South Vietnam in 1975, are over 250,000 boat people and 250,000 other civilians who were either ruthlessly murdered outright or who perished in communist death camps set up to "re-educate" non-communists.
2007, John P. C. Matthews, Explosion: The Hungarian Revolution of 1956, page 618:Three years after Stalin's death, with ghostly figures returning to Moscow and Leningrad from Stalin's death camps, the leaders in the Kremlin agreed that Stalin's ghost had to be laid to rest if they were to get on with the reforms that would allow them to stay in power.
2007, Steve Bates, Bible Crusade, page 79:In America's death camps, 1,500,000 babies annually are put to death in their mother's womb. The war being waged on the womb front killed more children than soldiers in the history of warfare.
- A concentration camp built during the Holocaust by the Nazis to kill especially the Jewish people through gassing.
- Hyponym: concentration camp
Translations
facility
- Arabic: مُعَسْكَر إِبَادَة m (muʕaskar ʔibāda), مُعَسْكَر مَوْت m (muʕaskar mawt)
- Armenian: մահվան ճամբար (mahvan čambar)
- Azerbaijani: ölüm düşərgəsi
- Belarusian: ла́гер сме́рці m (láhjer smjérci), ла́гер сьме́рці m (láhjer sʹmjérci)
- Bulgarian: ла́гер на смъртта́ m (láger na smǎrttá)
- Catalan: camp d'extermini m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 滅絕營 / 灭绝营 (mièjuéyíng) (extermination camp)
- Czech: tábor smrti m
- Danish: dødslejr c, udryddelseslejr c (extermination camp)
- Dutch: vernietigingskamp (nl) n
- Finnish: tuhoamisleiri (fi) (extermination camp), kuolemanleiri (fi)
- French: camp d'extermination (fr) m (extermination camp), camp de la mort (fr) m
- German: Vernichtungslager (de) n (extermination camp), Todeslager (de) n
- Greek: στρατόπεδο εξόντωσης n (stratópedo exóntosis)
- Hebrew: מַחֲנֵה הַשְׁמָדָה (he) m (makhané hashmadá), מחנה מוות \ מַחֲנֵה מָוֶת m (makhané mávet)
- Hungarian: haláltábor (hu)
- Icelandic: útrýmingarbúðir f pl
- Irish: campa an bháis m, campa géibhinn m
- Italian: campo di sterminio (it) m
- Japanese: 絶滅収容所 (ぜつめつしゅうようじょ, zetsumetsu shūyōsho) (extermination camp)
- Korean: 절멸수용소(絶滅収容所) (jeolmyeolsuyongso)
- Lao: ຄ້າຍມໍລະນະ (khāi mǭ la na)
- Lithuanian: naikinimo stovykla f
- Macedonian: логор на смртта m (logor na smrtta)
- Malay: kem penghapusan
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: dødsleir m, tilintetgjørelsesleir m (extermination camp)
- Nynorsk: dødsleir m
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: اُرْدوگاهِ مَرْگ (ordugâh-e marg)
- Polish: obóz zagłady (pl) m, obóz śmierci (pl) m
- Portuguese: campo de extermínio m
- Romanian: lagăr de exterminare n
- Russian: ла́герь сме́рти m (lágerʹ smérti)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: логор смрти m
- Roman: logor smrti m
- Slovak: tábor smrti m
- Slovene: uničevalno taborišče n, taborišče smrti n
- Spanish: campo de exterminio m (extermination camp)
- Swedish: förintelseläger (sv) n
- Thai: ค่ายมรณะ
- Turkish: imha kampı
- Ukrainian: та́бір сме́рті m (tábir smérti)
- Yiddish: אומברענג־לאַגער m (umbreng-lager)
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