#manzanar

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Memorial built by concentration camp inmates to commemorate those who died in the camp, Manzanar, Inyo County, 2023.

Just finished reading Life After Manzanar, a book following some of the various inmates of the concentration camp after they were released. In a small part it is "feel good," as some, notably the younger inmates, went on to lead fulfilling and productive lives. Others, especially the older inmates, had their lives destroyed, not a few of them dying not long after their release. Most of the incarcerated were long-term residents in the places where they had been arrested although almost none had criminal records, and many were citizens. On release, some went back to hostile, or at best indifferent, communities where they had once lived. Others staked out lives in new places. Wherever they went after 1945, their human and legal rights had been violated, all of the former inmates had been traumatized, and they had been robbed of a significant part of their lives. They had only one characteristic in common, all were members of a despised ethinic group. It is a grim tale but one which proves "it can happen here."

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"HANDS OF LATHE WORKER" MANZANAR RELOCATION CENTER ANSEL ADAMS // CALIFORNIA, 1943 [gelatin silver print | U/D]

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Grandfather and grandson of Japanese ancestry at Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California, 1942

Credits: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration

Photographer: Dorthea Lange

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Haruka Sakaguchi, Manzanar, 2022

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Manzanar Cemetery Monument by Mark Stevens Via Flickr: While taking in views of the landscape present in the Manzanar National Historic Site with a view looking to the southwest. This is of the Manzanar Cemetery and monument with a mountain backdrop of Mount Williamson.

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Reconstructed guard tower, Manzanar "Relocation Center", near Lone Pine, California (October 2023).

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The first season of The Terror is Tumblr's darling, but personally, I think the second season, Infamy, is much better. It's about the community of Japanese-Americans who lived on Terminal Island, and who were sent to the concentration camp Manzanar. Most of the show takes place in the camp and is about how the ghosts of past personal betrayal and present political betrayal intersect in the lives of some related families.

L.A.'s Terminal Island buildings listed among America’s 11 most endangered historic places

The National Trust for Historic Preservation aims to save from destruction the last two surviving structures from Terminal Island's pre-Worl

The only two surviving buildings from Terminal Island’s days as a thriving Japanese American fishing village in the early 1900s have been placed on the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s 2025 list of America’s 11 most endangered historic places. The designation, announced Wednesday morning, is meant to elevate the visibility of the site, which stands as a physical reminder of a story that ended with the incarceration of the island’s residents — among an estimated 120,000 people of Japanese descent, most American citizens, who were forcibly removed following the bombing of Pearl Harbor in World War II.

Today, Terminal Island is part of one of the country’s busiest container ports, and many people don’t know that it was the first place from which Japanese Americans were uprooted and sent to government camps such as Manzanar in the Owens Valley.

The L.A. island that was home to seven decades of 'lost communities'

Terminal Island may be best known for the Japanese American village tragically uprooted by government order. A new book mines its history as

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American painter Wendy Yoshimura in 1976, Piedmont, California.

Wendy Masako Yoshimura, born Jan 17, 1943 is an American still life watercolor painter. She was a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army during the mid-1970s. She was born in Manzanar, one of numerous World War II-era internment camps for Japanese Americans who were forced out of their homes and businesses along the West Coast. She was raised both in Japan and California's Central Valley. via Wikipedia