Sentences with phrase «war camps in»

Both films are about young soldiers that suffer in Japanese prisoner - of - war camps in WWII, and both preach messages of forgiveness.

The latter might be the first book to read since it gives a Western view of Tibet by an Austrian who lived there after escaping from a prisoner - of - war camp in India.

He survived the Bataan Death March, but by the time he was liberated from a Japanese prisoner - of - war camp in 1945 his weight had fallen from 170 to 125, he was paralyzed from the waist down and was near death from malnutrition.

For those who don't know, Zamperini was an Olympic runner who survived a Japanese prisoner - of - war camp in World War II.

The runner is imprisoned on one of the Marshall Islands and eventually transferred to a prisoner - of - war camp in Tokyo.

John Sturges» The Great Escape tells the true story of the daring prison break attempt at the German Stalag Luft III prisoner of war camp in March 1944.

Doing so would also help break through the fights between warring camps in education whose arguments both have merit but need not be diametrically opposed.

This haunting tale, set in the jungles of Malaya during and after World War II, centres on Yun Ling, the sole survivor of a Japanese prisoner - of - war camp in which her sister perished.

Trained in medicine, he served as a doctor in North Africa during World War Two, but was taken prisoner in 1943 and interned in a prisoner - of - war camp in Hereford, Texas, where he first began to paint.

Not exact matches

At one point early in the campaign, media theorist Clay Shirky said that the anti-Trump camp — including many in traditional media — were «bringing fact - checking to a culture war,» implying that doing so was like bringing a knife to a gun fight.

McElrath knew things went well — he had a team camped out in a war room all weekend glued to status monitors for not only WeatherTech's site but also the websites of MetLife Stadium and the Pro Football Hall of Fame, also Americaneagle.com clients.

China has started building refugee camps on the North Korean border, in what the New York Times interprets as a sign of real fears of a war between the rogue state and the U.S..

Captured during the Battle of the Bulge in late 1944, Vonnegut was confined in a German prisoner - of - war camp near the city during the February 1945 aerial campaign.

Captured during the Battle of the Bulge in late 1944, Vonnegut was confined in a German prisoner of war camp near the city during the February 1945 aerial campaign.

In 2002, then President Bush sanctioned the establishment of the camp at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in order to house prisoners captured during U.S. military operations in the War on TerroIn 2002, then President Bush sanctioned the establishment of the camp at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in order to house prisoners captured during U.S. military operations in the War on Terroin order to house prisoners captured during U.S. military operations in the War on Terroin the War on Terror.

And if you're in the camp that believes this devaluation is the start of a new «currency war,» then it might be time for gold to shine.

Former Olympic athlete and survivor of a Japanese prisoner of war camp, Louis Zamperini, is something of a household name in the US.

February 12, 2009 — Makes a statement denouncing anti-Semitism a month after a scandal involving a bishop denying the death toll of Jews killed in concentration camps during World War II.

-- MAO: Anti-faith: 10's of millions killed — POL POT: (Communist Khmer Rouge)-- 3 million of 8 million killed — Vietnamese Communists: A million killed after the war in concentration camps.

We find that the Romans owed... the conquest of the world to no other cause than continual military training, exact observation of discipline in their camps and unwearied cultivation of the other arts of war.»

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I also did not say that America was Isolationist — there was a large isolationist element in society (and the Christians were in that camp) that effectively kept America out of the war for years, but Roosevelt, an internationalist, was able to provide supplies via lend - lease (which the conservatives and religious people of the time opposed).

In between summer 1943 and the camp's liberation at the end of the war, she played more than 100 concerts at Theresienstadt.

In The World at War a holocaust survivor tells a story of a Jewish Rabbi who prays for God to save the Jews being put to death in the campIn The World at War a holocaust survivor tells a story of a Jewish Rabbi who prays for God to save the Jews being put to death in the campin the camps.

As James expected the camping party to get back to the useful business of chopping firewood and cooking supper once he had «assuaged the dispute» by his pragmatic observations, so the application of process thinking in reference to the canonical wars now ravaging American higher education should be the means by which faculty might be led back from endless idle arguments to their real and proper work of designing good courses and teaching them well.

If you knew jews were about to be killed in a concentration camp during the war, would you not feel morally obligated to stop it if you could?

They have been killed in holy wars and inquisitions, concentration camps and prison cells.

If a lack of religion were the problem, then centuries of Christian rule leading up to that event wouldn't have yielded over a hundred million dead in wars of conquest and dogma, genocidal campaigns, witch - hunts, and death camps.

Education based upon religious convictions is accused of everything from dividing society into warring camps to indoctrinating children in a way that prevents them from achieving autonomy and critical consciousness.

Thus the Holiness family includes pockets of influence within Methodism (many camp meetings and some educational institutions), pre-Civil War perfectionist antislavery radicals like the Wesleyans and Free Methodists, such products of the National Camp Meeting Association as the Church of the Nazarene and the Pilgrim Holiness Church, social - service movements like the Salvation Army, a synthesis of Holiness theology and a Campbellite - like ecclesiology in the Church of God (Anderson, Indiana), as well as a host of smaller bodies.

There was also the fact that there was 4 years where we waged war in Europe upon entry into WWII and did not bomb train tracks, camps or send liberation teams imemdiately to these camps even after for sure knowing what was happening.

I asked the group to think about a soldier in World War II who crosses a hill and beholds the gates of a concentration camp.

It has been reckoned that, in addition to the 87 million lives taken in the wars of this century, an additional 80 million were deliberately killed or starved to death in Hitler's death camps, Stalin's labor camps, Mao's cultural revolution and the «killing - fields» of Cambodia.2 So much for the advanced civilization of the twentieth century.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer was asked to lead a service for his fellow prisoners in Flossenburg concentration camp towards the end of the Second World War As he finished two men flung open the door and told prisoner Bonhoeffer to take his things and come with them.

He sees how they have made tweaks to the system, established safeguards and how entries are flagged for review, for example, if deaths were during World War II and in places bearing names of Nazi death camps like Auschwitz or Treblinka.

On March 26, a group of New York — based lawyers headed by Edward D. Fagan, who spearheaded successful suits on behalf of Holocaust survivors against European firms that collaborated with the Nazis in using concentration camp inmates as laborers, filed suit in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn against FleetBoston Financial, the insurance giant Aetna, and railroad conglomerate CSX Corporation, on the grounds that these corporations are the successors of companies that profited from slavery before the Civil War.

He was active in Y.M.C.A. work; he did chaplain work for Camp Douglas, a prisoner of war camp just south of Chicago; he carried on his regular Sunday school work; and he started Sunday evening services.

Corrie ten Boom (1892 - 1983), whose home in Haarlem was a sanctuary and hiding place for Jews during the Second World War and who herself survived imprisonment in Ravensbruck concentration camp, told how she lied to save Jews from the Nazi death camps.

«The two largest groups containing prisoners in the camps, both numbering in the millions, were the Polish Jews and the Soviet prisoners of war (POWs) held without trial or judicial process.

And then, on the hopeful assumption that everyone slept through the night, or at least until dawn, next would come breakfast, six - way debates over what to eat for breakfast, a belated but grandly sung Latin grace (the girls went to Gregorian - chant camp in the summer), and then backpack - packing, hair brushing that featured much wailing and gnashing of small teeth, and finally back to the elevator - button wars before a race - walk over to the convention center.

Famines in Africa, cyclones, war, squalid refugee camps: such global crises are turned into media dramas.

Wiesenthal's father died in combat in World War I. His mother perished at the Belzec concentration camp in 1942.

His early years were spent as a cattle herder in the area known as South Sudan, but, like many from the region, was forced to live in a refugee camp after his nation became divided by war.

After losing his own father to war, he became one of the «Lost Boys of Sudan» who traveled thousands of miles alone as a child to a large refugee camp in Kenya.

Leon Gersten (at the far left end of the third row back) with other schoolchildren in a displaced persons camp in Germany after the war.

And then there is world around us: the hungry bellies, the dirty water, the vicious war, the waiting and lonely children silent behind chain link fences in refugee camps, the women caught in sex trafficking, our culture's exploitation and violence masquerading as entertainment, and Lord have mercy.

It is not the war itself, and in fact, many of the skills and behaviors learned at boot camp (or seminary) will never be used in war (and in fact, may be a hindrance).

I also found the discussion in the book about the purpose of seminary to be extremely helpful (pp. 52 - 55) The authors equated seminary with boot camp where soldiers train for war.

Imagine writing a letter to Jewish people in a concentration camp during the second world war, and you went on to explain what a Nazi was, and who Hitler was.

Hence, many of the Arabs who were driven out or fled during and after the several wars, and who are now housed in camps on the West Bank or in Lebanon or who live in Gaza or Jordan, have no more right to the land than do the Jews who came there from Europe, America or the Arab countries.