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Recent Examples of work camp
The family was forced into a cattle car packed full of mostly Jewish people, forced to go to what was supposed to be a work camp at Auschwitz in Poland, but was an extermination camp.
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Linda McIntosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Jan. 2026
In the Depression era movie, Hawke portrays a widower who is torn from his daughter and gets sent to a brutal work camp.
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Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
25 Jan. 2026
In Oregon in 1933, Samuel Murphy is torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal work camp.
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Anthony D'alessandro,
Deadline,
22 Jan. 2026
After the father, Nathan (Paul Winfield), is arrested for stealing ham and shipped off to an unknown work camp, eldest son David Lee (Kevin Hooks) takes a journey with the family dog, Sounder, to try and find him.
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Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Dec. 2025
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Linda McIntosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
26 Jan. 2026
In the Depression era movie, Hawke portrays a widower who is torn from his daughter and gets sent to a brutal work camp.
—
Rebecca Rubin,
Variety,
25 Jan. 2026
In Oregon in 1933, Samuel Murphy is torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal work camp.
—
Anthony D'alessandro,
Deadline,
22 Jan. 2026
After the father, Nathan (Paul Winfield), is arrested for stealing ham and shipped off to an unknown work camp, eldest son David Lee (Kevin Hooks) takes a journey with the family dog, Sounder, to try and find him.
—
Kevin Jacobsen,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for work camp
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More than 250 were documented to have died in concentration camps.
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Other relatives were deported to the concentration camps Theresienstadt and Auschwitz.
Noun
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Mary Nelson, founder of Mary Nelson Youth Center, grew up in the migrant labor camps of central New York, caring for her younger siblings at only eight years old while her family worked the fields.
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He was convicted and sentenced to 13 years in a labor camp.
Noun
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Unlike the public perception often created by movies and television, daily life at a federal prison camp revolves around work assignments, educational programming, treatment, and institutional responsibilities.
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Samuel Murphy is a war veteran who has been busted and sent to a notorious prison camp.
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