work camp

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Recent Examples of work camp In the series, the submarine is a secret project of the company’s that Nemo, who was a prisoner in a work camp for three years, helped design. Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 25 June 2025 In an earlier interview, Leili repeatedly denied guarding prisoners at Mauthausen, one of a cluster of work camps in Austria, notorious for a stone quarry where slave laborers spent 11-hour days hauling slabs of granite up a steep rock staircase. Henry Leutwyler Robert Petkoff Emma Kehlbeck Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 20 May 2025 Eventually, they were sent to a work camp in the wilds of Siberia where Yetta shared a room with a horse and subsisted on frozen food. Malina Saval, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2025 Communal meals were served in the multi-ethnic work camps as plantation workers needed nutritious, hearty meals portioned to keep them going all day long. Ben Davidson, Mercury News, 1 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for work camp
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Noun
  • Almond and his collaborators, including this season's artist-in-residence, cellist Alexander Hersh, will performs works by Erwin Schulhoff and Viktor Ullmann, who both died in concentration camps.
    Jim Higgins, jsonline.com, 30 Aug. 2025
  • Key Background Nazi forces stole extensive collections of art and cultural treasures from across Europe during World War II, primarily from Jewish owners who were sent to concentration camps.
    Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • As a teenager, Wiesel was sent with his father, Shlomo, to the Buna Werke labor camp in the Auschwitz complex.
    Grace Gilson, Sun Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2025
  • Hawke plays Samuel Murphy who, after the death of his wife, is imprisoned in a labor camp run by Clancy, an unscrupulous overseer (Crowe).
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 6 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Todd Chrisley was being released from a minimum-security federal prison camp in Pensacola, FL, Julie Chrisley was being released from the Federal Medical Center in Lexington, KY, and the rest of the family lives near Nashville.
    Peter White, Deadline, 1 Sep. 2025
  • Soon after giving the interviews in late July, she was transferred to a cushier, minimum-security prison camp in Texas.
    Aysha Bagchi, USA Today, 24 Aug. 2025

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“Work camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/work%20camp. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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