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unusual facts about labor camps



Emslandlager

The moorland labor camps, Emslandlager ("Emsland camps") - as they were known - were for political opponents of the Third Reich, located outside of Börgermoor, now part of the commune Surwold, not far from Papenburg.

Nikolay Gredeskul

She was arrested on July 5, 1941, sentenced to 10 years in the Soviet labor camps and died in a German offensive outside of Smolensk when prisoners were forced to dig trenches to stop German tanks.


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Criminal punishment in Edo-period Japan

For crimes requiring moderate punishment, convicts could be sent to work at labor camps such as the one on Ishikawa-jima in Edo Bay.

Czech and Slovak Orthodox Church

Churches and chapels were closed, and a rounding up of Czechs was conducted, including the whole village of Lidice, whose inhabitants were either killed or sent to forced labor camps.

Gert Heinrich Wollheim

He was arrested in 1939 and held in a series of labor camps in France (Vierzon, Ruchard, Gurs and Septfonds) until his escape in 1942, after which he and his wife hid in the Pyrénées with the help of a peasant woman.

Mečislovas Reinys

Documents in the Lithuanian Special Archives reveal the course of his interrogation; many of his relatives had been deported to Siberian labor camps, and the KGB offered to release them in exchange for his cooperation.

Mikhail P. Kulakov

Kulakov’s brother Stephen was one of the thousands who died in the labor camps near the Far North city of Vorkuta.

Nazino affair

River transport to the final labor camps was closed until the start of May until ice on the Ob and Tom Rivers cleared.

Nora Rubashova

On August 18 of this year she was sentenced to 5 years in labor camps, has been set in the Mariinsky District office where was released in 1936 and sent into exile in Michurinsk.

Pinedale, California

Pursuant to Executive Order 9066 signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, thirteen makeshift detention facilities were constructed at various California racetracks, fairgrounds, and labor camps.

Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story

Sala's Gift: My Mother's Holocaust Story is an account by Ann Kirschner of her mother's experiences in the Holocaust, based primarily on a collection of letters her mother gave her, that she had received while in Nazi labor camps, written by about 80 correspondents.

Sigitas Tamkevičius

Tamkevičius spent his prison term in the labor camps of Perm and Mordovia.