Ma'anar ƙamus na "sansanin mutuwa" sansanin taro ne da ake kashe fursunoni masu yawa a cikin tsari, musamman lokacin Holocaust a yakin duniya na biyu. ’Yan Nazi ne suka kafa waɗannan sansanonin don ɗaure Yahudawa da wasu ƙungiyoyin da gwamnatin Nazi ba sa so a kurkuku da kuma halaka su. Ana amfani da kalmar "sansanin mutuwa" musamman ga sansanonin 'yan gudun hijira, kamar Auschwitz-Birkenau, inda manufar farko ita ce kashe mutane a ma'aunin masana'antu.