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sběrný tábor

English translation: displaced persons camp (DP) camp

14:28 Jul 22, 2011
Czech to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - History / sběrný tábor
Czech term or phrase: sběrný tábor
není to koncentrák, (kde se může taky jít na smrt) ale tábor kde se po válce shromažďovali ztracenci a čekali na návrat domů (nechci použít “concentration camp”).
napadá mne toho dost ale zajímá mne názor ostatních
Hannah Geiger (X)
United States
Local time: 16:55
English translation:displaced persons camp (DP) camp
Explanation:
A displaced persons camp or DP camp is a temporary facility for displaced persons coerced into forced migration. The term is mainly used for camps established after World War II in West Germany and in Austria, as well as in the United Kingdom, primarily for refugees from Eastern Europe – the majority of them being Jews – and for the former inmates of the Nazi German concentration camps. Even two years after the end of World War II in Europe, some 850,000 people still lived in DP camps across Western Europe, among them Armenians, Poles, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Yugoslavs, Greeks, Ukrainians and Czechoslovaks.
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Lenka Mandryszová
Czech Republic
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Děkuji
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2displaced persons camp (DP) camp
Lenka Mandryszová
3repatriation site/centre
jankaisler
3 -1reception camp
Peter Hladky
3 -1troop concentration camp
janavio
1relief and rehabilitation (administrative) camp
Rad Graban (X)


Discussion entries: 3





  

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3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
displaced persons camp (DP) camp


Explanation:
A displaced persons camp or DP camp is a temporary facility for displaced persons coerced into forced migration. The term is mainly used for camps established after World War II in West Germany and in Austria, as well as in the United Kingdom, primarily for refugees from Eastern Europe – the majority of them being Jews – and for the former inmates of the Nazi German concentration camps. Even two years after the end of World War II in Europe, some 850,000 people still lived in DP camps across Western Europe, among them Armenians, Poles, Latvians, Lithuanians, Estonians, Yugoslavs, Greeks, Ukrainians and Czechoslovaks.


    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Displaced_persons_camp
Lenka Mandryszová
Czech Republic
Native speaker of: Native in CzechCzech
PRO pts in category: 4
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Děkuji

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agree  Charles Stanford
16 hrs
  -> Děkuji
agree  vierama
23 hrs
  -> Děkuji
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
repatriation site/centre


Explanation:
x


    Reference: http://www.armyg1.army.mil/.../neo/Repatriation%20Sites.html
jankaisler
Local time: 22:55
Native speaker of: Czech
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 1/5Answerer confidence 1/5
relief and rehabilitation (administrative) camp


Explanation:
Nie je to náhodou ono?

Rad Graban (X)
United Kingdom
Local time: 21:55
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in SlovakSlovak
PRO pts in category: 4
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -1
reception camp


Explanation:
ďalšia možnosť

Peter Hladky
Slovakia
Local time: 22:55
Native speaker of: Native in SlovakSlovak

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Gerald Turner: "internment camp" is the appropriate translation
46 days
  -> Thanks. Put your suggestion into discussion, but question was closed.
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): -1
troop concentration camp


Explanation:
já vím, je tam to slovíčko concentration, :), navrhuji jen další možnou variantu ke zvážení

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Note added at 6 hrs (2011-07-22 21:16:10 GMT)
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děkuji za vysvětlení kontextu ... :) .... v tom případě odvolávám návrh troop concentration camp :))

Example sentence(s):
  • Troop concentration camps were set up in Great Britain .....

    Reference: http://www.canadiangreatwarproject.com/writing/kinmelpark.as...
janavio
Local time: 21:55
Native speaker of: Native in CzechCzech
Notes to answerer
Asker: jde o Lidicke děti vracejici se z Německa kde byly na ” převychování”


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Gerald Turner: Far too specific. "Internment camp" is the appropriate translation
46 days
  -> This question was closed long ago. Maybe you can post your suggestion to the discussion. And yes, I'm aware it is specific, I was under an impression that asker means a camp for soldiers waiting to go home after war. She provided more info later on.
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