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There were three types of camps for Japanese and Japanese-American civilians in the United States during World War II. Civilian Assembly Centers were temporary camps, frequently located at horse tracks, where Japanese Americans were sent as they were removed from their communities.
The Manzanar Children's Village was an orphanage for children of Japanese ancestry incarcerated during World War II as a result of Executive Order 9066, under which President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the forced removal of Japanese Americans from the West Coast of the United States.
Of the 110,000 Japanese Americans detained by the United States government during World War II, 30,000 were children. [140] Most were school-age children, so educational facilities were set up in the camps. [ 141 ]
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Imprisoned: The Betrayal of Japanese Americans During World War II is a 2013 non-fiction children's book by American writer and historian Martin W. Sandler. [1] The book describes the lives of Japanese Americans before, during, and after their time in internment camps during World War II, as well as Japanese Americans who served in the United States military during the war.
The Go for Broke Monument in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, California, commemorates the Japanese Americans who served in the United States Army during World War II. The National Japanese American Veterans Memorial Court in Los Angeles lists the names of all the Japanese Americans killed in service to the country in World War II as well as in Korea ...
This weekend marks 81 years since more than 125,000 people of Japanese ancestry living in the U.S. were ordered into internment camps during World War II, and the emotions have reverberated ...
Manzanar is the site of one of ten American concentration camps, where more than 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II from March 1942 to November 1945. Although it had over 10,000 inmates at its peak, it was one of the smaller internment camps.