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
He was referring to the Gashora transit camp, which we visit on a hot Thursday afternoon.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2023
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
He was interned in Westerbork, a former Nazi transit camp then in use as a prison for collaborators.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 20, 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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