Sentences with phrase «labor camp as»

A native of Kopyczynce, Poland, Mr. Ostapiuk was taken with his family to a Siberian labor camp as a child, where he was held until the Soviet Union joined the Allied forces during World War II.

Zdzislaw «Joe» Ostapiuk survived a Siberian labor camp as a child and came to the U.S. as a teen before working his way up the ladder at Chicago and North Western Transportation Co. to become an assistant vice president.

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Instead, he presents the perspectives of those people imprisoned in the Russian labor camps who have resisted the triumph of dialectical thinking as it is embodied in the Soviet state philosophy.

It's one thing in a labor camp: You break your back the livelong day and, just as you lay your head on a straw pillow, you hear: «U-u-u-up you get!»

This summer, there are four major restricted free agents and at least one young unrestricted free agent who remain unattached as we cruise by Labor Day and approach training camp.

Related to point # 2, in the Parenting as an Entrepreneur episode, Alicia Ybarbo said something that really stuck out to me — that women get very good at narrowing in on solutions and making split decisions because there is basically no time to labor endlessly over camp options or put up with working with someone crazy when there is a less crazy alternative.

A specific camp of moms insist that there's no pain involved with labor and delivery, and that contractions are simply felt as «pressure» or «waves.»

But Meyerson believes that the very traits that make Nixon's description of Cuomo as «Andrew the Bully» effective have succeeded in keeping labor in his camp.

Both sources described the trip as a «private humanitarian mission» to free Gomes, a 31 year - old Boston resident who was sentenced in April to eight years at a hard labor camp for illegally crossing North Korea's border with China and for an unspecified «hostile act.»

Synopsis: Denounced by his wife as a possible spy in 1939, Janusz (Jim Sturgess) finds himself in a remote Siberian labor camp.

The beloved 1973 original starred Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman as French convicts struggling to survive a prison labor camp.

He's been to the Cannes competition three times (winning the Grand Prix for «To Live») and this film, which reteams him with muse Gong Li will very likely make it four — it's rumored to already be a done deal.The story follows an old man, who'd been sent to a labor camp, as he eventually returns to his family, and presumably sees Zhang work in a more intimate register than some of his epic outings.

GULAG is an acronym of Glavnoe Upravlenie Lagereian which, depending on the source, translates as «The Main Directorate for Corrective Labor Camps» or «Main Camp Administration».

Having studied twins in a legitimate capacity earlier in his career, Mengele took advantage of his position as a doctor at Auschwitz to perform unwarranted operations, mutilations, deadly blood transfusions, and other atrocities on the hundreds of sets of twins forced into the labor camp.

According to a book written in the late 1940s about the forced labor camps, dogs such as the Caucasian Ovcharka were trained to despise any person dressed in torn, ragged clothing.

After periodically studying at the Art Institute of Indianapolis and at the Art Students League with William Merritt Chase, Connaway traveled throughout the United States taking labor - intensive jobs as a railroad worker, a doryman in a fishing fleet, and a cook at a remote lumber camp.

The artist's large - scale sculptures reveal the trace of the human hand and suggest her early recollections of being surrounded by wooden walls, tools, and utensils as a child living in wartime labor and refugee camps in Germany after her family was forced to leave Poland.

Some were active members of the armed forces, having volunteered or been conscripted into service; others were interned in labor or refugee camps; more were forced to flee, taking shelter in neutral countries, hiding in mountainous or rural areas, or relocating to New York, as was the case with a number of European artists in exile.

However, what these images do not reveal are the great economic and human costs of these state - sponsored initiatives, particularly as violent pogroms, forced labor camps, deliberate famines, and food shortages became commonplace under Stalin's rule by the 1930s.

His striking images capture the physical aspects of their labor, as well as their social life in workers» camps at the edge of the fields.