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The San Francisco Examiner, April 1942 Tatsuro Masuda, a Japanese American, unfurled this banner in Oakland, California the day after the Pearl Harbor attack. Dorothea Lange took this photograph in March 1942, just before his internment. A child is "Tagged for evacuation", Salinas, California, May 1942. Photo by Russell Lee.
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
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.
On February 19, 1942, shortly after Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 authorizing the forced removal of over 110,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast and into internment camps for the duration of the war.
This is an incomplete list of Japanese-run military prisoner-of-war and civilian internment and concentration camps during World War II. Some of these camps were for prisoners of war (POW) only. Some also held a mixture of POWs and civilian internees, while others held solely civilian internees.
On August 4, 1942, a riot broke out at the Santa Anita Assembly Center. The camp closed on October 27, 1942. Once the permanent concentration camps were built most of the Santa Anita Assembly Center inmates transferred to Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Rohwer War Relocation Center, Granada War Relocation Center, and Jerome War Relocation Center.
NBC News' Emilie Ikeda explores family connection to Japanese internment camps during World War II on 81st ... the names of the Japanese Americans who were affected by Executive Order 9066 in 1942.
No Japanese-American citizen or Japanese national residing in the United States was ever found guilty of sabotage or espionage. [14] There were 10 of these internment camps across the country called “relocation centers”. There were two in Arkansas, two in Arizona, two in California, one in Idaho, one in Utah, one in Wyoming, and one in ...