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work camp

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as in concentration camp

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Recent Examples of work camp The family was forced into a cattle car packed full of mostly Jewish people, forced to go to what was supposed to be a work camp at Auschwitz in Poland, but was an extermination camp. — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Jan. 2026 In the Depression era movie, Hawke portrays a widower who is torn from his daughter and gets sent to a brutal work camp. — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 25 Jan. 2026 In Oregon in 1933, Samuel Murphy is torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal work camp. — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 22 Jan. 2026 After the father, Nathan (Paul Winfield), is arrested for stealing ham and shipped off to an unknown work camp, eldest son David Lee (Kevin Hooks) takes a journey with the family dog, Sounder, to try and find him. — Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Dec. 2025 See All Example Sentences for work camp

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Outside of learning about ancient concentration camps and historic serial killers while Phaedra beams, the moment without Porsha serves as a Hail Mary pass for Shamea to try to salvage some of the damage from the night before.

— Ile-Ife Okantah, Vulture, 20 July 2026
While there, Lassally’s sister went to school with Anne Frank, and he, his mother and sister were imprisoned in the Westerbork transit camp and later in the Theresienstadt concentration camp.

— Michael Schneider, Variety, 20 July 2026

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Mary Nelson, founder of Mary Nelson Youth Center, grew up in the migrant labor camps of central New York, caring for her younger siblings at only eight years old while her family worked the fields.

— Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 15 May 2026
He was convicted and sentenced to 13 years in a labor camp.

— Nick Tabor, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 Apr. 2026

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The dour Dostoyevsky probably didn’t mean this as a compliment to human nature; the line appears in a book, The House of the Dead, about life in a Siberian prison camp.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 July 2026
Unlike the public perception often created by movies and television, daily life at a federal prison camp revolves around work assignments, educational programming, treatment, and institutional responsibilities.

— Walter Pavlo, Forbes.com, 30 June 2026

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