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Life within the prison camp was difficult due to overcrowding, poor wages and lack of privacy. At its peak, the camp held 7,310 prisoners of Japanese descent, making it the 10th largest city in ...
Heart Mountain Relocation Center, January 10, 1943 Ruins of the buildings in the Gila River War Relocation Center of Camp Butte Harvesting spinach. Tule Lake Relocation Center, September 8, 1942 Nurse tending four orphaned babies at the Manzanar Children's Village Manzanar Children's Village superintendent Harry Matsumoto with several orphan children
When the Japanese invaded the Philippines, they used the camp to house American POWs. It was one of three camps in the Cabanatuan area and was designated for holding sick detainees. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Occupying about 100 acres (0.40 km 2 ), the rectangular-shaped camp was roughly 800 yards (730 m) deep by 600 yards (550 m) across, divided by a road ...
Players from the Japanese American League, along with friends and relatives of former incarcerees, played in a tribute to the baseball teams formed at prison camps across the country during the era.
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.
A tranquil watercolor by imprisoned artist Kango Takamura depicts a winter's day at the Manzanar camp in California's Owens Valley. - Courtesy Japanese American National Museum
The Untold Story: Internment of Japanese Americans in Hawai‘i: 2012 Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i When You're Smiling: The Deadly Legacy of Internment: 1999 Janice D. Tanaka Winter in My Soul: 1986 Bob Nellis, KTWO Without Due Process: A Documentary about America's Concentration Camps: 2001 Brian Beanblossom Valor With Honor [43] 2008
Ahead of reparations report, Don Tamaki, a Japanese American attorney and member of the reparations task force, reflects on fighting for prison camp survivors.