Manzanar
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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
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
Concentration camp
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A concentration camp is a prison or other facility used for the internment of political prisoners or politically targeted demographics, such as members of national or ethnic minority groups, on the gr
Manzanar
…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…
Boer women and children in a Second Boer War concentration camp in South Africa (1899–1902)
Punishment cell block in one of the subcamps of Vorkutlag, a major Russian gulag, 1945
Jewish slave laborers at the Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar photographed after their liberation by the Allies on 16 April 1945
Lieutenant von Durling with prisoners at Shark Island, one of the German concentration camps used during the Herero and Nama genocide