How to Use transit camp in a Sentence
transit camp
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They were sent through the Drancy transit camp and loaded onto a cattle car to Auschwitz.
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Marc Snegg,
Time,
7 Aug. 2025
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Those who did heed their call-up orders were deported to the Westerbork transit camp in the eastern part of the Netherlands and then to the Auschwitz death camp, where nearly all were killed.
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Time,
30 Sep. 2025
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After two weeks, Malaysian authorities transferred the refugees to a transit camp, where the United Nations provided basic rations.
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IEEE Spectrum,
20 Jan. 2026
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But an index card from The Jewish Council in Amsterdam shows that Wolfgang, just 19, was sent to the Westerbork transit camp.
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Jackie Hajdenberg,
Sun Sentinel,
21 Apr. 2026
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While there, Lassally’s sister went to school with Anne Frank, and he, his mother and sister were imprisoned in the Westerbork transit camp and later in the Theresienstadt concentration camp.
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Michael Schneider,
Variety,
20 July 2026
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