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  forced labor camp production   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Those detainees were forced to crack the seeds of a large variety of melon between their teeth, and then peel the husk off with their bare hands to remove the kernels.
They were forced to 'sit on iron chairs', a form of torture where their hands were handcuffed from behind their back, their feet were put into two square holes and they were sandwiched between the back of the iron chair and an iron slab in front of their chest.
She was sentenced to forced labor camp for three years without any trial and without a lawyer only because she handed out flyers in the street to clarify to the Truth about Falun Gong.
www.upholdjustice.org /English.2/forced_labor_products_report.htm   (7323 words)

  
  Holocaust Timeline: The Camps
Camps were an essential part of the Nazis' systematic oppression and mass murder of Jews, political adversaries, and others considered socially and racially undesirable.
The death camps proved to be a better, faster, less personal method for killing Jews, one that would spare the shooters, not the victims, emotional anguish.
The total figure for the Jewish genocide, including shootings and the camps, was between 5.2 and 5.8 million, roughly half of Europe's Jewish population, the highest percentage of loss of any people in the war.
fcit.coedu.usf.edu /holocaust/timeline/camps.htm   (1176 words)

  
 Poniatowa Forced Labor Camp
Until the beginning of the spring of 1942, died or murdered 22,000 prisoners of war and were buried in 32 mass graves in the outskirts of the camp.
In the camp was active the ZOB, the Jewish Fighting organization of Ghetto Warszawa, and its main purpose was to organize a resistance in case of liquidation of the camp.
The commander of the ZOB in the camp was Meilech Finekind, activist of "Poalei Zion Smol" from Warszawa.
www.zchor.org /poniatowa/poniatowa.htm   (2163 words)

  
 Holocaust Issues and Restitution: Forced Labor During WWII   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Forced labor emerged as essential to the war effort, and the number of people enslaved exceeded seven million.
In 1943, 8,491 deaths were recorded in the Mauthausen concentration camp forced labor system which had an average population of 21,100.
Large numbers of Jews who were forced laborers were even taken from their places of work and deported to the death camps.
bnaibrith.org /ppolicy/holocaust_issues/forcedlabor100599.cfm   (1179 words)

  
 Labor camp - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The labor camp was a way for the Soviet Union to stop the population from rebelling, and it was a tool of fear.
In the Yalta conference it was agreed that German forced labour was to be utilised as reparations.
In Communist Romania, labor camps were operated for projects such as the building of the Danube-Black Sea Canal and the desiccation of the Great Brăila Island, on which enemies of the regime were "re-educated" by forced labour.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Forced_labor_camp   (1004 words)

  
 Gulag: Forced Labor Camps Online Exhibition
This camp was neither the biggest nor most brutal, yet it became a model camp where the NKVD developed and tested security measures, "living conditions", production norms for prisoners, and all possible methods of repression.
Soviet labor camps were surrounded with walls and barbed wire, and hidden by a policy of secrecy and enforced silence.
Sketch of an internment camp at Kistarcsa, Hungary.
www.osa.ceu.hu /gulag/txt1.htm   (2392 words)

  
 Forced Labor Camp in Orleans
An Orleans County farm labor contractor and members of her family faced arraignment in Federal Court in Buffalo Thursday.
Federal authorities accuse them of coercing Mexican boys and men into forced labor at migrant camps in Orleans County.
Maria Garcia, 52, an Albion farm labor contractor licensed with the state, her husband Jose Garcia, 52, and son Jose Garcia, 21, pleaded not guilty to 18 counts of human trafficking and forced labor.
www.rnews.com /print.cfm?id=5465   (322 words)

  
 Forced Labor Camps in the Communist Countries
Location of labor camps in the USSR published by an American publishing house, based on Polish sources including: 14,000 afidavits, original lists, and documents collected by the army of General Anders.
Forced Labor Camps in the "People’s Democracies" [HU OSA 300-9] contains maps and systemized data about multiple camps and represents an analysis of the forced labor system in these countries.
Conditions in these forced labor camps varied from fair to incredibly bad, many camps earned the reputation of being "death camps" because of hight mortality rates due to the amount of labot exacted, and the brutal conditions under which it was performed.
www.osa.ceu.hu /gulag/f.htm   (471 words)

  
 The Epoch Times | Forced Labor and Torture Are Part of CCP's Culture
According to official statistics, more than 3.5 million people have undergone this kind of re-education in labor camps after the system was first adopted in 1957, but the actual number would be much higher.
As people may be arbitrarily sent to a forced labor camp for re-education, officials of the public security bureau can not only initiate a case and conduct an investigation by themselves, but they can also administer punishments at their own discretion.
The procedure for sending people to a forced labor camp is so simple and convenient that it is often employed arbitrarily by dictators and corrupt officials to get revenge against their opponents, suppress democracy or bully people.
www.theepochtimes.com /news/5-4-2/27496.html   (941 words)

  
 Practitioners Tortured in Xishanping's Forced Labor Camp, Chongqing City | Clearharmony - Falundafa in Europe
Under the supervision of the Xishanping Forced Labor Camp Superintendent Long and Education Department Section Chief Tian Xin, with the help of military unit leader Tian Xiaohai and Local captain Lui Hua, began another round of severe persecution against Dafa practitioners.
More than a hundred prisoners in the forced labor camp who were incarcerated for drug addiction, were brought in and directed to keep 24-hour surveillance on Dafa practitioners.
The drug addict inmates immobilized Dafa practitioners and forced them to the floor (regardless of a practitioners' age), covered their mouths with their shoes, slapped Dafa practitioners faces relentlessly with the soles of their shoes causing practitioners' faces to become fl and blue, and to become swollen and misshapen.
www.clearharmony.net /articles/200207/5840.html   (484 words)

  
 FalunInfo.Net - Inside a Chinese Forced Labor Camp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Camps like these are used to house millions in China, including citizens charged with nothing more than upholding their right to freedom of belief.
Yang, the vice president of the Yinmahe Forced Labor Camp who is in charge of inmates, and his section chiefs personally exhorted all squads to persecute Falun Gong practitioners.
The labor camp also used other extreme means to torture us, such as lashing us with iron whips, kicking, hitting our faces with shoes, etc., but the most horrible thing that I saw involved practitioner Xue Baoping from Henan.
faluninfo.net /displayAnArticle.asp?ID=6302   (1032 words)

  
 Falun Dafa Clearwisdom.net   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Tian Junlong was tortured to death in the Chaoyanggou Forced Labor Camp in Changchun, Jilin Province.
Oftentimes, she was forced to stand in the courtyard under the scorching sun during the day and was not allowed to sleep until 2 a.m.
The labor camp was afraid to admit her, so they asked the county police department to take her back.
cw83913.zhufa.org /emh/articles/2005/4/8/59405.html   (8956 words)

  
 The 11th Armored Division is pleased to post the following article written by 12 year old Kendra Dickinson
The Mauthausen Concentration Camp was established on August 8, 1938, as a forced labor camp.
The prisoners of the concentration camp were to be used as a cheap labor force in the quarries.
In the initial stage of the camp, the prisoners were confronted with utterly inhuman conditions as they had to work in setting up the camp and in the quarries" ("The Mauthausen Concentration Camp 1938-1945," 1a).
www.11tharmoreddivision.com /history/mauthausen/mauthausen_camp.htm   (1807 words)

  
 Plaszow Concentration Camp - shown in Schindler's List
The next stage of the Final Solution for the Krakow Jews was the liquidation of the Podgorze ghetto and the transportation of the remaining Jews to the forced labor camp at Plaszow on March 13 and 14, 1943.
At this point, Plaszow was still not a concentration camp, but a penal labor camp under the jurisdiction of local SS men in the General Government, as the central section of occupied Poland was called by the Nazis.
It was because this was a labor camp, under local authority, that the random killing of prisoners by Amon Goeth did not command much attention among the top brass.
www.scrapbookpages.com /Poland/Plaszow/Plaszow01.html   (744 words)

  
 Jacob Hennenberg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
In May 1941, the Germans took Jacob to a labor camp in the German city of Wiesau.
In 1944, Jacob was taken to the Waldenburg concentration camp.
Forced labor camps were run by the German police, while the more ruthless German SS ran the concentration camps.
members.aol.com /jpearl3   (499 words)

  
 Filmmakers uncover unknown labor camp   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
They are scenes from a Nazi propaganda film taken at Hellerberg, a labor camp northwest of Dresden that Teschner describes as a cross between Terezienstadt and a Schindler work camp.
The camp was run by a subsidiary of the German camera manufacturer Zeiss-Ikon, one of whose employees made the film for the Nazis, then kept it hidden for decades before turning it over to a retired Dresden cameraman named Ernst Hirsch.
For the German filmmakers, the motivating force behind the project is rather uncomplicated.
www.jewishaz.com /jewishnews/970314/film.html   (470 words)

  
 Gulag - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1931–1932, the Gulag had approximately 200,000 prisoners in the camps; in 1935 — approximately 800,000 in camps and 300,000 in colonies (annual averages), and in 1939 — about 1.3 millions in camps and 350,000 in colonies.
While some of these were deserters and war criminals, there were also 339,000 Soviet citizens repatriated from DP camps in Germany (including 233,000 former military personnel) charged with treason and aiding the enemy.
However, camps were generally spread throughout the entire Soviet Union, including the European parts of Russia, Byelorussia, and Ukraine.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gulag   (3909 words)

  
 Plaszow Forced Labour Camp
The camp was encircled by an electric double apron barbed wire fence, 4 km in length.
The camp was divided into several sections: the German quarters, the factories and the camp itself, which was divided into men’s and women’s compounds, each with separate subsections for Poles and Jews.
The area was not suitable for a camp, as it was situated mainly on rocky, hilly ground and malaria-infested marshland.
www.deathcamps.org /occupation/plaszow.html   (1248 words)

  
 Falun Dafa Clearwisdom.net - Officers Wang Yuxin and Guo Xiangmin in Jinan Forced Labor Camp Met with Karmic ...
The so-called "Jinan City Law Training Center," which is actually a brainwashing center to forcibly "transform" practitioners, colluded with Jinan Forced Labor Camp and used extremely cruel means to forcibly brainwash practitioners in Jinan.
Wang was often heard trying to force prisoners or their family members to have illicit affairs with him.
Practitioners were closely monitored, forced to sit on a small bench without being allowed to move around, deprived of rest and sleep day and night, and instilled with lies by those who had turned against Dafa.
www.clearwisdom.net /emh/articles/2007/1/23/81942.html   (964 words)

  
 Labor camp « Status of Chinese People
At the end of 2002, she was transferred to the Zhangshi Forced Labor Camp for two years of forced labor.
She says she was tortured repeatedly at a women’s labor camp, and one day with about 500 other detainees, was taken to a hospital for a physical examination that included extensive medical tests.
Many prisoners in the labor camp without money continue to be treated inhumanely in the night by having to sleep vertically on their sides.
chinaview.wordpress.com /tag/social/politics/labor-camp   (6972 words)

  
 Details on the Persecution of Practitioners at Wuyuan Forced Labor Camp in Inner Mongolia
Besides using forced labor to torture practitioners, they also force practitioners to attend "brainwashing sessions," where they use despicable, underhanded methods to persecute practitioners.
The head of the "transformation center" is deputy camp leader Yang Furong, who instigated camp leader Wei Minxuan to beat practitioners with electric batons as a matter of course in the presence of Yang Furong himself, Liu Baohua, Wei Yuzhi, and Zou Yan.
Even though Wuyan Labor Camp keeps saying that it maintains "civilized management" in order to "build a harmonious labor camp," team leaders were made to study the six orders passed down by the Judicial Department repeatedly.
www.pureawakening.net /pa/article/2006/10/12/59957.html   (1062 words)

  
 Satellite photos show N. Korea's forced labor camp: report Asian Political News - Find Articles
The weekly magazine said the camp, referred to as No. 22 Camp, is one of the biggest of such secretive and infamous camps and is located in Haengyong in the northeastern part of North Korea bordering China.
Each houses around 30 people, who provide slave labor for the farms and factories,'' said the 33-year-old former guard, who has been exposing the horrors of North Korea's forced labor camps since his defection.
Most camp inmates were held because they had offended North Korean leader Kim Jong Il or his late father, the nation's founder, Kim Il Sung, the magazine said.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0WDQ/is_2002_Dec_9/ai_95100433   (479 words)

  
 The Atrocities Committed at the Xishanping Forced Labor Camp in Chongqing
The main topic of the meeting was how to force the Falun Gong practitioners held in either the prisons or the forced labor camps to renounce their belief in Falun Dafa.
During the day, besides the so-called "military training," he was forced to "confess" (he was forced to stand for a long time or bend 90 degrees in front of a bucket full of human waste with both hands on his head.
Because his medical skill was very poor and his attitude towards the patients was very bad, the drug addicts of the forced labor camp all called him a "vet." He was transferred to the Education Division in May 2001.
www.pureawakening.net /pa/article/2004/6/19/33203.html   (1586 words)

  
 Breaking News: Forced Labor Camp Workers Freed In Italy - The Post Chronicle
Authorities were investigating four suicide cases at the camps, the report said.
The workers reportedly were forced to work for up to 15 hours a day on wages of less than one euro per hour.
The Observer said a Polish police official told reporters in Warsaw that the camps in the Puglia region were run by three Poles, two Ukrainians and one Algerian.
www.postchronicle.com /news/breakingnews/article_21229278.shtml   (402 words)

  
 Goldwater Calls For Labor Camp : AZ IMC
Washington - A Republican gubernatorial candidate's call for creation of a forced labor camp for illegal immigrants drew rebukes Friday from two GOP lawmakers, who labeled it a low point in the immigration debate.
Goldwater, a candidate for governor in Arizona, said in a statement Friday that his comments were taken out of context.
He promised then that if elected, he would put illegal immigrants in a tent city on the border and use their labor to build the wall.
arizona.indymedia.org /news/2006/06/44906.php   (368 words)

  
 Jack Abramoff's "Forced Labor" Camp » SlideShare
BRIAN ROSS: In fact, American authorities have discovered many Chinese workers are forced to sign secret agreements, known as shadow contracts, before they leave China, severely and, in some ways, illegally restricting their activities while on American soil.
For example, in this agreement translated into English by American authorities, workers are forbidden to participate in any religious or political activity or to ask for a salary increase or even to fall in love or get married, much as might be the case in mainland China.
But having borrowed the equivalent of $2,800 to pay the \"recruitment fee\" in China, she cannot return until she has earned at least enough to pay off the loan.
www.slideshare.net /Mormons4justice/jack-abramoffs-forced-labor-camp   (839 words)

  
 EMH2005-7-18
In order to force the practitioners to give up the practice and to give up their belief in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" the guards in the forced labor camp, under the instruction of Jiang Zemin's regime, cruelly tortured and persecuted practitioners who steadfastly practiced Falun Gong.
There were also several other variations of this torture, such as forcing one to lie on the bed with the four limbs handcuffed to the four corners of the bed, the same as the cruel punishment of dismembering a criminal's body.
In order to force practitioners to give up their belief in "Truthfulness-Compassion-Forbearance" the guards used collaborators who had given up the practice to instill practitioners day and night with the lies fabricated by the evil Party.
www.truewisdom.net /emh/articles/2005/7/18/zip.html   (13775 words)

  
 Wife of Pitt researcher released from forced labor camp in China
Wife of Pitt researcher released from forced labor camp in China
Xu, a research associate in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh, was elated to learn that his wife, Xiaomei Jia, who also is an engineer, had been released from a forced labor camp for women in Beijing.
Although Xu had written to her, she never received any of his letters, so the couple had no contact for more than a year and a half.
www.post-gazette.com /World/20030507freed0507p7.asp   (410 words)

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