Concept information
Preferred term
Concentration Camps
Type
-
Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
Entry terms
- Camp, Death
- Camp, Internment
- Camps, Death
- Camps, Internment
- Death Camp
- Death Camps
- Internment Camp
- Internment Camps
Note
- specify geographic location if pertinent
Scope note
- A place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution.
History note
- 91(75); was see under PRISONS 1975-90
In other languages
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Finnish
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keskitysleiri
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Swedish
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D003209
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