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internment camp

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Noun1.internment campinternment camp - a camp for prisoners of war
POW camp, prison camp, prisoner of war camp
camp - a penal institution (often for forced labor); "China has many camps for political prisoners"
gulag - a Russian prison camp for political prisoners
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; to the internment camp at Manzanar, where Japanese-Americans were held captive during World War II; and to the town of Allensworth, founded by African-Americans in the San Joaquin Valley.
STUDENTS EXPLORE DIVERSE CULTURES by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Life changes dramatically when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor; first Sumiko's grandfather and uncle are arrested, and then the rest of the family ends up in an internment camp in Poston, Arizona.
Cynthia Kadohata: Weedflower by Brabander, Jennifer M. / The Horn Book Magazine
Instead, she discovers a lonely boy hiding from the threat of an internment camp, and must decide if he's really the enemy or a friend.
Knopf/Delacorte/Random/Fickling Bks by Children's Bookwatch
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