Word: camped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Andagoya is a camp belonging to the Frontino Gold Mines, situated amid the jungles at 5° f North and, 77° 32' 30" West or 67 kilometers south of Quibdo at the confluence of the Condoto and San Juan Rivers...
...leave by the underground disguised as a nun, and is at length deposited at a small Mediterranean port among various royalists, anarchists, Pétainists, terrorists, ex-Gestapo men, Italian airmen, Turkish prostitutes, Hungarian ballet dancers and Portuguese Trotskyites. He winds up eventually at a Jewish Illicit Immigrants' camp in Palestine where one of his former students recognizes him and establishes his identity...
...name lettered on the big roadside sign outside the cluster of 20-odd two-story buildings near Bremen, in Germany's British zone. Adelheide was built to be one of the biggest Luftwaffe bases in northern Germany. At war's end it became first a D.P. camp, then (with the addition of barbed wire) an internment center for Gestapo-men and Nazis awaiting trial...
...girls are typical of Adelheide's population. Nervous, dark-haired Irma was working in a textile mill in the Russian zone when the millowners and technicians suddenly decamped to set up another mill under Allied occupation. Jobless and starving, Irma wound up at a refugee camp. From there she was rescued and sent to the Christliches Jugenddorf. Plump, blonde Else had been working as a cook when told that she had been requisitioned by the Soviet military government. She was so terrified that she fled across the border without waiting to find out what the Russians wanted...
Gentle Hands. In his last year Kafka knew a moment of happiness. He met a young Polish Jewish girl at a seaside camp, and teased her as she scaled fish: "Such gentle hands and such bloody work." For a few harried months she lived with him, making him once again want to live and write. He even asked her Orthodox father for permission to marry her, explaining that he was not a religious Jew but "a repentant one, seeking conversion." But it was too late; his lungs were withering...