slave labor camp
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of slave labor camp
First recorded in 1935–40
Example Sentences
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"We escaped almost the same day from the slave labor camp and we found ourselves in Budapest and we both joined the anti-Nazi underground," Shatz said.
From Reuters • May 19, 2022
When she was a teenager, Tubman happened to be at a dry goods store when an overseer was trying to capture an enslaved person who had left his slave labor camp without permission.
From Salon • Feb. 6, 2021
When he got out of the Siberian slave labor camp, he bought a violin for a pack of American cigarettes, his one connection to his life before the trauma.
From New York Times • May 4, 2020
Some short time later, Buchman and her sister were transferred to a slave labor camp where they worked at a munitions factory.
From Fox News • Jan. 27, 2020
It was a slave labor camp, where U.S. service members and other prisoners were forced to dig tunnels for the Nazi war effort.
From Washington Post • Mar. 10, 2018
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