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Whelan, a former Marine who lived in Novi, was accused of espionage and convicted in June 2020 during a closed-door trial and sentenced to 16 years of hard labor in a work camp.
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Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2024
After an attempt to find a new sanctuary goes awry, Caesar and the apes find themselves in a brutal work camp run by the spine-chillingly creepy Colonel (Woody Harrelson).
—Barry Levitt, Vulture, 10 May 2024
Author Antonia Hylton masterfully explores all 93 years of the institution’s existence, from its humble beginnings as a small work camp to its end as a walled city housing thousands of patients.
—Ed Martin, Baltimore Sun, 25 Apr. 2024
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, EW.com, 14 May 2024
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Arpan Lobo, Detroit Free Press, 28 June 2024
After an attempt to find a new sanctuary goes awry, Caesar and the apes find themselves in a brutal work camp run by the spine-chillingly creepy Colonel (Woody Harrelson).
—Barry Levitt, Vulture, 10 May 2024
Author Antonia Hylton masterfully explores all 93 years of the institution’s existence, from its humble beginnings as a small work camp to its end as a walled city housing thousands of patients.
—Ed Martin, Baltimore Sun, 25 Apr. 2024
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, EW.com, 14 May 2024
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Watch on Max The Zone of Interest In 1943, Rudolf Höss (Christian Friedel) was the commandant of Auschwitz who spent his days playing god with the lives of the concentration camp’s innocent prisoners.Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 29 Oct. 2024
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The Hidden Book, by Kirsty Manning Kirsty Manning’s compassionate novel is inspired by a real World War II covert mission in 1940s Austria to smuggle out photographic evidence of the treatment of prisoners at Mauthausen concentration camp.Staff, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 Aug. 2024
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In July 1942, the Nazis ordered Anne’s older sister, Margot, to return to Germany and report to a labor camp.Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2024
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At the labor camp, guards woke him up every two hours every night for four years.Margaret Brennan, CBS News, 20 Oct. 2024
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Scarborough died July 28, 1942, and was buried along with other deceased prisoners in the local Cabanatuan Camp Cemetery in Common Grave 215, according to prison camp and other historical records.Cara Tabachnick, CBS News, 9 Aug. 2024
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Navalny died suddenly in a prison camp in the Russian Arctic in February.Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2024
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“Work camp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/work%20camp. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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