forced-labor camp
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After hiding in a barn with his parents and brother for several months at the onset of the war, Ron was sent in a cattle car to Plaszów, a forced labor camp, in March 1943.
From Washington Post • Mar. 29, 2022
As for Mr. Mekas, at year’s end I asked him whether having experienced the Soviet invasion of Lithuania as a child and having been put in a Nazi forced labor camp, he was an optimist.
From New York Times • Dec. 25, 2015
On September 14, Su Yuhong left the Masanjia forced labor camp in northern Liaoning province.
From Reuters • Nov. 30, 2013
Naturally, I wonder whether Dr. Ores has any regrets about his own tattoos, especially when I learn that his father spent five years in Plaszow, a forced labor camp in Poland.
From Salon • Dec. 26, 2012
Because of his reputation as a just officer, Winfried is told of terrible abuses in a forced labor camp, promises to try to correct them.
From Time Magazine Archive
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