Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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Transit camp may refer to:
- Military camp
- Transit POW camp
- Transit internment camp
- Transit concentration camp, in particular,
- Durchgangslager of Nazi concentration camps
Transit Camp or Temporary Shelter (French: Camp volant) is a 1932 French-German drama film directed by Max Reichmann and starring Ivan Koval-Samborsky, Berthe Ostyn and Meg Lemonnier. It was made as a polyglot film with each actor speaking in their own language. It is set amongst the travelling circus community.
Usage examples of "transit camp".
Personal relationships they take where they can, and always lose them somewhere between the Right and the Left, somewhere in the scorched field, in the urinal smell of the transit camp or the subway station.
Embassy in Vienna when she was in a transit camp in Austria, and been granted it, had given birth while in America, yet regis.
In a transit camp in Austria she contacted our embassy and we gave her a visa to come here instead.
Everything pointed to this being a transit camp rather than a permanent barracks.
He was taken to Siberia and spent six months in an underground cell in the Vladivostock transit camp waiting for ice to melt and the steamer to come to take them away.
As the darkness deepened, she began to see a faint glow in the sky beyond the city as a transit camp for the incoming forces grew ever larger.
After a period in a transit camp he was packed with other Jews into a boxcar on a cattle train bound for the east.
And his impression of the column merely at a transit camp for the moment.
There I would have to hang about in Nee Soon Transit Camp until the old Otranto arrived for the voyage home which could mean a wait of up to a fortnight.
Ginger and I had both kept our uniforms, and we marched into a transit camp and got a detail of men organized -young rookies, all saluting us like mad - you'd have laughed!
We were sent by train to a transit camp at Hay Paddock, near Pietermaritzburg, and attached to reinforcements for the South African Sixth Division, awaiting transport to Italy.
Here there had been, in past times, a Roman transit camp on the road from Kerrec to Lanascol.