Sentences with phrase «labor camp with»

His passionate defense of human rights and freedom of speech is deeply tied to his own personal experience, after spending his early childhood in a labor camp with his family, and later on being targeted for his outspoken criticism of the Chinese government.

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Nevertheless, the memorabilia of inhumanity with a Russian face are indelible: the birch, the knout, the Cossack's saber, the cattle car, the Arctic slave - labor camp, the nine grams of lead in the back of the skull.

Nevertheless, the memorabilia of inhumanity with a Russian face are indelible: the birch, the knout, the Cossack's saber, the cattle car, the Arctic slave - labor camp, the....

We went camping with our ENTIRE family in Calico Ghost Town (in the heart of the California desert) during labor day weekend.

Spring training was starting a month late because of the owners» lockout of the camps and the torturous labor negotiations, and teams were faced with three weeks instead of the usual six to prepare for Opening Day.

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.

With just about two weeks to go until the big day (unless your little one decides to camp out for a little bit longer), your baby is beginning to prepare yourself for labor.

When that season ends in late June, it's on to an Olympic Development, Select or Premier team for a round of summer tournaments, with perhaps a one or two week soccer camp thrown in to the mix, and, by August, its time to gear up for a Labor Day tournament and another fall season.

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.»

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.

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.»

Journalist Allen vividly chronicles how Weigl and Fleck were forced to perform inhumane tests in concentration camps, but also labored to save the lives of their test subjects and sabotage their captors with selectively ineffective vaccines.

In fact, Oskar Schindler (Neeson, Darkman) was an opportunist who saw the ability to make lots of money with the cheapest of labor during the war period, by taking Jews out of the German camps and employing them in his factory.

With the goal of creating a communist utopia, the Khmer Rouge evacuated millions of people to labor camps in 1975 - resulting in a four - year civil war that killed two million people through executions, starvation and disease.

The latter quality is especially haunting during a sequence in which Mikael (who has escaped a labor camp by means of sweating dynamite and a fellow prisoner with nothing for which to live) catches a ride on a passing train.

Redgrave juxtaposes our horrifying present of inadequate refugee quotas and humanitarian disasters (like last year's clearing of the Calais migrant camp) with the refugee crises of WWII and its aftermath, recalled with archival footage, contemporary news reports and personal testimony — including an interview with the eloquent Labor politician Lord Dubs, who was one of the children rescued by the Kindertransport.

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.

From the hordes of labor camp women working on a dam project, one is called in for a meeting with General Yevgraf Zhivago (Lean favorite Alec Guinness).

It opens in 1940 in Russia - occupied Poland with the sentencing of Janusz (Jim Sturgess), a Polish soldier who has been denounced on trumped - up espionage charges by his wife and sentenced to a Siberian labor camp.

Still Working: Ghosts of Chinese Transcontinental Railroad Workers by Lonnie Dai Zovi, is a short ghost story with exercises about a pair of graduated high school students taking their last camping trip together sleeping out in the open, right where the deserted Chinese Labor camp, where the workers on the Transcontinental Railroad used to stay.

Promised support for families on pension cards with additional funds for school camps is another well - targeted Labor policy.

There was no moonscape and no apparent forced labor camps, just a continuation of rolling hills with the barren foliage of early spring — a striking continuation of Korea.

Visitors will encounter references to the literal and metaphoric scars of the pine industry and the turpentine camps (not unlike the slave plantations once located on the same land), along with the music that grew out of this labor and the resilient spirit of the workers.

The participants» accounts of both the Hollywood taping and the historical German occupation of Poland are juxtaposed with depictions of two increasing indistinguishable sites: the film set and the German labor camp.

The artist spent her childhood in Nazi slave - labor and postwar refugee camps, and her earliest recollections — of displacement and subsistence through humble means — infuse her work with emotional potency.

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.

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.

Born in Poland in 1928, he was sent to a Siberian labor camp after the Russians (along with the Germans) invaded to start World War II.