forced-labor camp

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Perhaps the most profound story here belongs to Jacob Chaim, who, during his years in a Nazi forced-labor camp, secretly crafted a small tin spoon that would come to affirm his sense of humanity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Mrs. Reinhard was later placed in the Plaszow forced-labor camp.

From Washington Post • Apr. 9, 2022

Also, 41 percent of adults couldn’t identify Auschwitz as a concentration camp, a death/extermination camp, or a forced-labor camp.

From Slate • Apr. 13, 2018

Which is to say, it wasn’t a death camp, or even a forced-labor camp, but it was bad enough.

From New York Times • Dec. 26, 2013

For fifty-five years he did not know his parents’ fate for certain, and despite searching, he could not find any survivors from Trawniki, the forced-labor camp where his parents had been sent.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti