They are sometimes referred to collectively as the Gulag.
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People with a Polish background were often sent to both Nazi concentration camps and Soviet labor camps. Both Germany and the Soviet Union wanted control of Poland.
Gulags existed in the Soviet Union from 1930 to 1960. Gulags where referred to as "Corrective Labor Camps" in the Soviet Union, and included forced labor, and punishment.
gulag
Most of the land east of the Ural Mountains in Russia is Siberia.
Here are few Labor Camps which the Nazis used during the Holocaust.Alderney Labor CampArbietsdorf Labor CampBuchenwald Labor CampDachau Labor CampFlossenburg Labor CampPlaszow Labor CampRavensbruck Labor CampSachsenhausen Labor CampPlease see related link for more Labor Camps including Concentration Camps and Extermination Camp.
Labor camps
People with a Polish background were often sent to both Nazi concentration camps and Soviet labor camps. Both Germany and the Soviet Union wanted control of Poland.
Susan B. Anthony and Soviet Labor Camps
A network of forced labor camps in the former Soviet Union, especially for political dissidents.
Gulags existed in the Soviet Union from 1930 to 1960. Gulags where referred to as "Corrective Labor Camps" in the Soviet Union, and included forced labor, and punishment.
A network of forced labor camps in the former Soviet Union, especially for political dissidents.
gulag
The Gulag or GULAG was the government agency that administered the penal labor camps of the Soviet Union.
Most of the land east of the Ural Mountains in Russia is Siberia.
Here are few Labor Camps which the Nazis used during the Holocaust.Alderney Labor CampArbietsdorf Labor CampBuchenwald Labor CampDachau Labor CampFlossenburg Labor CampPlaszow Labor CampRavensbruck Labor CampSachsenhausen Labor CampPlease see related link for more Labor Camps including Concentration Camps and Extermination Camp.
labor and concentration camps
Gulag inmates were commonly referred to as "zeks" in the Soviet Union. This term was derived from the Russian abbreviation for "prisoner" (z/k) and was often used to describe the forced laborers in the Soviet labor camps.