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forced-labor camp

NOUN
concentration camp
Synonyms
STRONGEST
gas chamber gulag internment camp prison camp
WEAK
Konzentrationslager death camp detention camp killing fields labor camp prisoner-of-war camp
NOUN
detention camp
Synonyms
WEAK
Konzentrationslager concentration camp gulag internment camp labor camp prison camp prison farm
NOUN
labor camp
Synonyms
WEAK
chain gang corvee gulag hard labor rock pile servitude slavery

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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

Josette Molland at 22 in the clothing she wore as an inmate of a Nazi forced-labor camp.

From New York Times • Mar. 6, 2024

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

At the final selection, I, along with all the other able-bodied souls, was shunted to one side, headed for the newly built Plaszow forced-labor camp.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman