As new bipartisan legislation prepares to designate Camp Amache as a national historic site, Amache survivors who spent three years in the internment camp are weighing in on the push to preserve it.
American interment: Survivor shares memories of Camp Amache as fight begins to preserve historic site
KMGH photojournalist Dominick Lee
and last updated 2021-05-30 09:01:03-04
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As new bipartisan legislation prepares to designate Camp Amache as a national historic site, Amache survivors who spent three years in the internment camp are weighing in on the push to preserve it.
In 1942, Americans of Japanese descent were forced from their homes and into 10 internment camps throughout small towns in the western part of the United States. One was in Grenada, Colorado.
It was officially called the Grenada Relocation Center and later changed to Camp Amache.
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