He also wanted to let people escape from the transit camp, but failed.
One of its functions was as a transit camp for political prisoners.
During the war, it was also used as a transit camp for the Holocaust.
People were to stay in the transit camp until land became available.
She said the police first took the family to a transit camp for the homeless, then to the tent.
Upon arrival he is brought to live in a ma'abara, or transit camp.
Approximately 7,600 inmates were put in a new central transit camp within the city for their further selection.
Those people should not be kept in transit camps if it is possible to take them back to their home.
Plans to close this transit camp last week were postponed.
"You will wait for the transport in the transit camp," she said.
He spent the first few years of his life in displaced persons camps with his parents and one brother.
For that reason, he was not registered as a Holocaust victim through a displaced persons camp.
"Nobody wants to live in a displaced persons camp."
As a refugee, he and his daughters stayed in a displaced persons camp for several years.
They later move to a displaced persons camp.
It was closed in January 1946 and was used as a displaced persons camp until 1949.
Rosen was born in Germany in a displaced persons camp.
Wiesenthal went with them, and was housed in a displaced persons camp.
Following the war, the labor camp was used as a displaced persons camp by the Allies.
From 1946 to 1949 a displaced persons camp was set up in Scheinfeld.