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Recent Examples of labor camp
These shows were a prelude to genocidal violence in Namibia, which housed the first German labor camps.
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Aatish Taseer, Travel + Leisure, 13 Oct. 2025
Some paid dearly for their dissent by losing their jobs, being sent to prison labor camps, being confined in psychiatric institutions, and/or forced into exile.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 3 Oct. 2025
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
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The following March, Navarro—at the age of seventy-four—began a four-month sentence in a senior dorm at a federal prison camp in Miami.—
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Just a week later, Maxwell was moved to a more permissive prison camp in Texas.—
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In 2017, a Radio Free Asia reporter named Shohret Hoshur broke the story that the Chinese government was holding members of the fiercely oppressed Uyghur minority in concentration camps in Xinjiang.—
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Get a close look at more than 400 photos and 500 original artifacts from those who survived and died at the concentration camp.—
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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.—
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In Oregon in 1933, Samuel Murphy is torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal work camp.—
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Fairbanks will headline a bullpen also featuring Luke Bachar, Anthony Bender, Calvin Faucher, Andrew Nardi, Tyler Phillips and perhaps Josh White.—
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Mitchell Layton / Getty Images The Miami Marlins took a significant step towards bolstering their bullpen, agreeing to a one-year, $13 million deal with right-hander Pete Fairbanks, league sources told The Athletic’s Will Sammon.—
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According to county jail records, Sutherland was arrested shortly after midnight Monday morning, with bail set at $50,000.—
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Arechiga did not enter a plea at his arraignment Monday in the jail courtroom in Santa Ana.—
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“Labor camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/labor%20camp. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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