22 Chilling Pictures Of Life At Japanese Internment Camps

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During the 1940s, more than 110,000 Japanese-Americans were relocated by the US to internment camps during World War II.

During World War II, the United States detained more than 110,000 Japanese-Americans, regardless of their citizenship, and relocated them to one of 10 designated internment camps for the duration of the war. It is considered to have been one of the largest violations of civil liberties in the nation, and in 1988, Congress issued a formal apology and offered restitution to the survivors and their families.

Here’s a chilling look back at that period:


A US flag flies at a Japanese-American internment camp, surrounded by mountains in Manzanar, California, during World War II in July 1942.



Shigeho Kitamoto and her children are evacuated, along with others of Japanese descent, from Bainbridge Island in Washington state, on Mar. 30, 1942. Cpl. George Bushy, member of the military guard that supervised the departure of 237 Japanese-Americans for California, gives her a hand with the youngest.


A large sign reading “I am an American” is placed in the window of a store in Oakland, California, in March 1942. The store was closed following orders to persons of Japanese descent to evacuate from certain West Coast areas. The owner, a University of California graduate, was to be housed with hundreds of evacuees in War Relocation Authority centers for the duration of the war.



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I am terrified for my friends and family. I am terrified for us all.

[bravenak]

1. I suppose I better pick out my tent before they fill up

[sheshe2]

2. Let me know when, I will take the one next to you.

[bravenak]

3. We better sell our stuff now. They confiscate anything you still own when they pick you up

I think if we convert to Islam we can get deported to Canada. Lets try that first.

[sheshe2]

4. I am desperate for ideas.

I am open to anything right now.

[bravenak]

5. Me too.

I want to get away but I am as far away from him as I cn be except for hawaii. I better stay here in case we get refugees from the lower 48. We still have homesteads out here. I feel like we just walked into the Walking Dead. Feels like a zombie apocalypse coming.

[sheshe2]

6. Benefits that I worked for for 50 years may be gone soon.

I am applying for SS on Thursday at 64. I will take a hit on what I collect, yet as I said to you earlier, no choice. No jobs. Medicare is 10 months away for me. Obamacare, which I have will most definitely disappear. I will be uninsured for the second time in a year.

Yes, the zombie apocalypse coming.

[bravenak]

8. I know

I told my mom to file early too if she wants to get any of what she put in. I know it will be gone when I get there so I hope everybody gets theirs if they can before Donald steals it

[KT2000]

7. a special film

about one man's experience is called The Cats of Mirikitani. He was a very talented artist who ended up living on the streets of new York until 9/11 happened and a filmmaker took him in. It is a truly wonderful film.

Had a friend whose family owned the largest florist shop in Seattle. When they were taken away the shop was sold (not by the owners) for peanuts to a white person. The family never got over their sham and the next generation had several suicides.

Their farms were sold for next to nothing. In one community though, the white people saved the farm for the interned owners by planting and harvesting the whole time they were imprisoned. They kept the money for the imprisoned family for when they finally got out.

It was a horrible thing that could very easily happen again. The trump voters have shown us this.

[Staph]

9. My dad grew up in a small town in Montana.

There was a Japanese family in town; one of the sons went to school with Dad. After Pearl Harbor, the family was taken from Montana. Dad never knew which camp they ended up in. They never returned to Montana.

Dad said later that it seemed wrong. He knew his friend and the family weren't spies or enemies, but it was the times. Those "dirty Japs" had attacked us, so we had to protect ourselves -- or so the government told us. Sound familiar?

Dad died 16 years ago, just before GW Bush was elected. He would be furious about Trump!

[betsuni]

10. From Monica Sone's "Nisei Daughter":

"Newspaper photographers with flash-bulb cameras pushed busily through the crowd. One of them rushed up to our bus, and asked a young couple and their little boy to step out and stand by the door for a shot. They were reluctant, but the photographers were persistent and at length they got out of the bus and posed, grinning widely to cover their embarrassment. We saw the pictures in the newspaper shortly after and the caption underneath it said, 'Japs good-natured about evacuation.'

"Our bus idled a moment at the traffic signal and we noticed at the left of us an entire block filled with neat rows of low shacks, resembling chicken houses. Someone commented on it with awe, 'Just look at those chicken houses. They sure go in for poultry in a big way here.' Slowly the bus made a left turn, drove through a wire-fenced gate, and to our dismay, we were inside the over-sized chicken farm. ... We stumbled out, stunned, dragging our bundles after us. It must have rained hard the night before in Puyallup, for we sank ankle deep into gray, gluttinous mud."

I grew up in Western Washington and went to Puyallup Fair every year when I was young, but didn't know until I was an adult that the fairgrounds were used as a temporary holding camp for the Japanese. Didn't know that the beach park in my hometown was once a strawberry farm run by a Japanese family. Didn't know about the time Chinese immigrants were removed earlier in the century, didn't know about the history of the Puyallup, Nisqually, Steilacoom and other tribes in the area. Cultural poverty, America has it, because I suppose it's too embarrassing, don't you know. And reading books near the ocean makes one a coastal elite.

[sheshe2]

11. OMG I am crying.