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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