English-Dutch translations for concentration camp

• concentratiekamp
  We worden naar het concentratiekamp getransporteerd. We are being transported to the concentration camp.
  Laatst schreef Die Welt dat Majdanek een Pools concentratiekamp was. Recently, Die Welt wrote that Majdanek was a Polish concentration camp.
  Dat betrof een tentoonstelling van voorstellingen van het concentratiekamp Auschwitz die jonge mensen hadden gemaakt.It was an exhibition of pictures of Auschwitz concentration camp, produced by young people.

Definition of concentration camp

• A camp where troops are assembled, prior to combat or transport
• A camp where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners, prisoners of war, refugees etc., are detained for the purpose of confining them in one place, typically with inadequate or inhumane facilities.
• A situation wherein crowding and extremely harsh conditions take place.

Examples

• The UN inspector stated that the Australian governments migrant detention facilities were in effect concentration camps

Related words

• concentrated
• concentrate
• concentrates
• concentration
• preconcentration
• deconcentration
• cryoconcentration
• cryoconcentrate
• reconcentrate