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A concentration camp is a place where people are imprisoned not because of any crimes they have committed, but simply because of who they are. Although many groups have been singled out for such persecution throughout history, the term 'concentration camp' was first used at the turn of the [20th] century in the Spanish American and Boer Wars ...
Most notably, Manzanar is known for its role in the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. It was situated on the former narrow-gauge railway line of the Southern Pacific Railroad 9 miles (14 km) north of Lone Pine, [2] at an elevation of 3,727 feet (1,136.0 m). [1] A post office operated at Manzanar from 1911 to 1914. [2]
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
Evacuees move into the Manzanar internment camp on June 19, 1942. (Associated Press) In some quarters, opposition to them returning from the camps began well before the war drew to a close.
Barracks at the Manzanar concentration camp. ("Barracks with Mt. Williamson" by Dorothea Lange ) Children's Village consisted of three barracks — one for staff apartments and communal areas, and two that contained the children's dormitories — located across from barracks 28 and 29, near the hospital, at the northwest end of the Manzanar ...
Manzanar Committee Chair Sue Kunitomi Embrey welcoming crowd at 33rd annual Manzanar Pilgrimage, April 27, 2002. This is a list of inmates of Manzanar, an American concentration camp in California used during World War II to hold people of Japanese descent. Koji Ariyoshi (1914–1976), a Nisei labor activist
The baseball games were held at Manzanar, one of 10 Japanese American concentration camps erected by the U.S. government during World War II.
In California Camp Manzanar and Camp Tulelake were built. Executive Order 9066 took effect on March 30, 1942. The order had all native-born Americans and long-time legal residents of Japanese ancestry living in California to surrender themselves for detention. Japanese Americans were held to the end of the war in 1945.