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
While waiting at the interim transit camp in the United Arab Emirates, he asked for writing supplies for the children so he could teach them English before they arrived in the U.S.,
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 7, 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
His images would be the final portraits of many of these people, who were among 5,500 sent that day from Amsterdam to Westerbork transit camp, and then on to “the east.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2022
After the theater, the next destination is a transit camp elsewhere in the Netherlands.
From "Girl in the Blue Coat" by Monica Hesse
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