transit camp
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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It took 16-year-old Mounir Abderahmane 11 days to reach the Tine refugee transit camp in Chad, crossing arid plains after fleeing the bloodshed in the Sudanese city of El-Fasher.
From Barron's ● Nov. 14, 2025
Only 22 percent of all respondents were able to identify Westerbork, a transit camp in the eastern Netherlands where Jews, including Anne Frank, were sent before being deported.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 24, 2023
On June 20, 1943, Ms. Pick-Goslar and her family were arrested in a roundup and taken to the Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2022
By then, Hannah, along with her sister, Rachel, her father and her maternal grandparents, had been taken to the Westerbork transit camp in the Netherlands.
From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2022
The next morning, at six A.M., they slogged through mud to the transit camp mess hall and ate canned figs and white bread from pie tins and drank coffee out of tin cups.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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