Sentences with phrase «through labor camps»

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Flipping through the pages, you encounter a horrific part of world history through the eyes of a 20 - year - old inside a slave labor camp.

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 prisoners were forced to march through the jungle along the railway (the «Line»), which followed the course of the river Kwai whenever possible, and labor camps were set up at various points.

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.