labour brigade BrE
labor brigade AmE

There were rumors that the labor brigades stationed in the capital city were treated much better than we were.

I heard stories of members of the labor brigades being attacked on the streets, but for a long time I dismissed them as rumors.

My unit immediately issued firearms to the members of the labor brigade, and the commander decided to fight the Germans if necessary.

Our train, consisting of about 40 wagons carrying valuable equipment, about 200 military personnel, and us, about 30 members of the labor brigade, moved slowly.

Her husband, a converted Jew, was dragged away to a labor brigade even though he had become a Catholic upon their marriage some 20 years before.

Whoever called them 'smasszers' must have been in the labor brigades in semi-fascist Hungary.

He continued to sketch clandestinely while in a Jewish forced labor brigade.

Bayur wrote: "800,000 Armenians died as a result of deportations or died in labor brigades."

All males were also told to prepare for mobilization into labor brigades within the Red Army.

In 1944, Ligeti's education was interrupted when he was sent to a forced labor brigade by the Horthy regime.