transit camp
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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For 18 months, Alia has been waiting in a transit camp in Qatar for her promised resettlement to the US.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026
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
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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