The debate extends to which words to use to describe the camps. Officially called “relocation centers ... it was her first visit to Manzanar. Inside the World War II-era mess hall, she said she was ...

110,000 persons of Japanese ancestry were interned in relocation centers by executive order NO. 9066, issued on February 19, 1942. Manzanar, the first of ten such concentration camps, was bounded ...

Japanese Americans held in prison camps were allowed to return home. But much of what they'd left behind was gone: homes, ...

At the foot of the majestic snow-capped Sierras, Manzanar, the WWII concentration camp, becomes the confluence for memories of Payahuunadü, the now-parched “land of flowing water.” ...

Jeanne’s family was relocated to a camp in Manzanar in the Inyo ... to make the most of their conditions. “The people got together and all tried to make a living as comfortable, and give ...

Jeanne’s family was relocated to a camp in Manzanar in the Inyo ... to make the most of their conditions. “The people got together and all tried to make a living as comfortable, and give ...

In “Farewell to Manzanar ... camp for Japanese Americans. It became the basis for a TV movie. By Richard Sandomir Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, whose memoir about living as a child in an internment ...

Eighty years ago, the Japanese and Japanese Americans — men, women, kids, two, three generations of families who had been locked up in wartime incarceration camps like Manzanar — were allowed ...

Jeanne’s family was relocated to a camp in Manzanar in the Inyo ... to make the most of their conditions. “The people got together and all tried to make a living as comfortable, and give ...