labor camp

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In 1945, her mother was deported by the Soviets to a forced labor camp in what is now Ukraine for five years.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

According to U.S. officials, King - who chose to serve his time at a labor camp rather than pay the nearly $4,000 fine - has been declared AWOL.

From Washington Times • Aug. 15, 2023

Her family lived in a labor camp, sleeping in milk barns before eventually moving into a shotgun house in Lemoore.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 6, 2023

Mr. Helfgott was sent to Schlieben, a Buchenwald sub-camp, leaving his father behind, before spending his final weeks in captivity at the Theresienstadt labor camp and ghetto in Czechoslovakia.

From New York Times • Jun. 28, 2023

As word spread in Seoul of his birth in and escape from a no-exit labor camp, he began to meet many of the South’s leading human rights activists and heads of defector organizations.

From "Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West" by Blaine Harden