During World War II, about 120,000 people of Japanese descent were forcibly relocated and incarcerated in ten concentration camps in the United States, operated by the War Relocation Authority, mostly
Woodland, California. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry are boarding a special train for Merced Assembl... NARA 537818
Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. A general all over view of a section of the emergency... NARA 539071
Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Making camouflage nets for the War Department. T... NARA 538118
Gila River Relocation Center, Rivers, Arizona. Evacuee farmers harvesting spinach at this relocatio... NARA 538585
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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 ove
Internment of Japanese Americans
…Merced, California (Merced County Fairgrounds – Merced Assembly Center) Owens Valley, California (Manzanar – Owens Valley Reception Center) Parker Dam, Arizona – (Poston War Relocation Center – Poston assembly center…
View of original entrance to Manzanar internment camp, November 2024
Unlined section of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, just south of Manzanar near U.S. Route 395, 2007
Two-year-old Yuki Okinaga Hayakawa waits at Union Station for the train taking her and her mother to Manzanar (April 1942)
Wooden sign at entrance to the Manzanar War Relocation Center