prison camp

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On May 4, 1945, at Gunskirchen, a Nazi prison camp in Austria, Edith was found by U.S. soldiers in a heap of people dead or dying.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

Born Tomas Straussler in Czechoslovakia, his parents fled from imminent Nazi occupation when he was still a baby and went to Singapore, where his father died in a Japanese prison camp.

From BBC • Nov. 30, 2025

This is a prison camp that does not house sex offenders, nor those with the 20-year sentence Maxwell has.

From Slate • Aug. 14, 2025

He is being held in a minimum security federal prison camp in Montgomery, Alabama, with a release date in September of next year.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 18, 2024

For most of those two years, Blake and a small group of prisoners languished in a makeshift North Korean prison camp, plagued with monotony and boredom.

From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau