Piles of dead prisoners in a concentration camp in Germany. Item from Collection FDR-PHOCO: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Public Domain Photographs, 1882 - 1962

What is a concentration camp?

I first asked that question in fourth grade when I saw pictures of it in a magazine. It must have been Time, as it’s the only magazine I remember receiving in the mail. It was about that time that I learned the existence of Hungary and Iater wondered why Hungary didn’t invade Turkey.

I scrutinized the pictures in the magazine. I had never seen a stack of bodies before.…

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