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internment camp



NOUN
prison camp
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Ms. Gage deals with it by visiting the remnants of a Japanese internment camp at Manzanar, Calif., and the research facility in Los Alamos, N.M., where U.S. government scientists built the atomic bomb.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

"And the Everglades internment camp even more so," he said.

From BBC • Aug. 30, 2025

“His belief was that they were put in the internment camp because the United States was a scared country,” said his daughter Laura Rutizer.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2023

In 1941, the Kaminskys were arrested and sent to Drancy, an internment camp near Paris that was a way station to the death camps.

From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2023

After ten short minutes the buses pass Manzanar, the old Japanese American internment camp.

From "Internment" by Samira Ahmed




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