labor camp

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When the actor got the part in Frankenstein, he was finishing Australian auteur Justin Kurzel’s miniseries, The Narrow Road to the Deep North, about World War II military prisoners in a Japanese labor camp.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 30, 2025

According to U.S. officials, King - who chose to serve his time at a labor camp rather than pay the nearly $4,000 fine - has been declared AWOL.

From Washington Times • Aug. 15, 2023

Her family lived in a labor camp, sleeping in milk barns before eventually moving into a shotgun house in Lemoore.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 6, 2023

Mr. Helfgott was sent to Schlieben, a Buchenwald sub-camp, leaving his father behind, before spending his final weeks in captivity at the Theresienstadt labor camp and ghetto in Czechoslovakia.

From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2023

To pass the time, Roberto and I watched the trains go by behind the labor camp.

From "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child" by Francisco Jiménez