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a type of prison where large numbers of people who are not soldiers are kept during a war and are usually forced to live in very bad conditions
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It was described in the script as representing the barracks of the concentration camps where Tóth and his wife Erzsébet (Felicity Jones) were imprisoned.
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Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 8 Jan. 2025
The ambiguities that result are fascinating and provocative, though Corbet never quite thinks them through: If László is creating, in effect, architectural poetry after Auschwitz, does this poetry redeem the cruelty and brutality of the concentration camps or reproduce it?
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2025
Obituary: Michel del Castillo, a Franco-Spanish writer whose wrenching chronicle of a childhood spent in World War II concentration camps brought him renown on both sides of the Atlantic, died at 91.
—Lyna Bentahar, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2024
Though fictional, the film follows a heartbreakingly familiar story for many immigrant modernist architects: Having survived the Nazi concentration camps, celebrated Jewish architect László Toth (Adrien Brody) escapes persecution in postwar Europe to begin his life and career again in Philadelphia.
—Elizabeth Fazzare, Architectural Digest, 20 Dec. 2024
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Bill Desowitz, IndieWire, 8 Jan. 2025
The ambiguities that result are fascinating and provocative, though Corbet never quite thinks them through: If László is creating, in effect, architectural poetry after Auschwitz, does this poetry redeem the cruelty and brutality of the concentration camps or reproduce it?
—Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2025
Obituary: Michel del Castillo, a Franco-Spanish writer whose wrenching chronicle of a childhood spent in World War II concentration camps brought him renown on both sides of the Atlantic, died at 91.
—Lyna Bentahar, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2024
Though fictional, the film follows a heartbreakingly familiar story for many immigrant modernist architects: Having survived the Nazi concentration camps, celebrated Jewish architect László Toth (Adrien Brody) escapes persecution in postwar Europe to begin his life and career again in Philadelphia.
—Elizabeth Fazzare, Architectural Digest, 20 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for concentration camp
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In December 2024, the BOP announced the closure of seven prisons—including six male prison camps—as a cost-saving measure to consolidate operations.—
Walter Pavlo,
Forbes,
11 Jan. 2025
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The Closure The Bureau of Prisons announced Thursday plans to close the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California, and deactivate minimum-security prison camps in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Colorado, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Florida.—
Daniel R. Depetris,
Newsweek,
6 Dec. 2024
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Nine years later, Lowell, which consists of three facilities — the main unit, the annex and a work camp — spends 46 percent less per inmate on healthcare and 36 percent less on education.—
Julie K. Brown,
Miami Herald,
23 Jan. 2025
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Transgender people, the text states, will be sent to work camps indefinitely.—
Nicole Acevedo,
NBC News,
18 Nov. 2024
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In World War II, the invading Germans sent the owners to labor camps and incinerated the farmstead.—
Ellen Ruppel Shell,
Smithsonian Magazine,
20 Nov. 2024
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On the afternoon of September 17, 1963, fifty-seven Mexican guest workers living at a labor camp in Salinas, California, finished up a 10-hour day harvesting vegetables and boarded a flatbed produce truck.—
Livia Gershon,
JSTOR Daily,
30 Nov. 2024
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The Chicago Cubs need a closer to finalize their bullpen for 2025.—
Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell,
Newsweek,
15 Jan. 2025
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In September, the Yankees removed Stroman from their rotation and began preparing him for a possible bullpen role for when the playoffs started.—
Brendan Kuty,
The Athletic,
15 Jan. 2025
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