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The internment of Japanese Americans during World War II is something many don’t know about. The descendants of those imprisoned at Amache are sharing their family stories and helping to shed light on this dark period in history.
One internment camp specifically for "enemy aliens" was on San Francisco property, set up in 1942 next to a municipal golf course just south of the city proper.
Lived from when he was six years old to nearly 10. what do you think the camp has taken away from you? >> well, self-esteem. i spent most of my life trying to regain it. >> reporter: most of those locked away were u.s. citizens, hauled off to harsh landscapes across america to what the government called "relocation centers." >> the evacuees cooperated wholeheartedly. the many loyal among them felt that this was a sacrifice they could make in behalf of america's war effort. >> reporter: the reality, say those who lived it, was far different. >> the dirt was all brown. the barracks were all blac...
Santa Anita Park in Arcadia and Fairplex in Pomona, then known as the Los Angeles County Fairgrounds, were both Civilian Assembly Centers, temporary camps where Japanese Americans were sent as they were removed from their communities. Eventually, most were sent to Relocation Centers, also known as internment camps. Japanese Americans considered to be disruptive or of special interest to the government were sent to Detention Camps. Korematsu lost an appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled in 1944 that the incarceration was justified due to military necessity. Legal historian Peter Ir...
Places they sent george takei concentration camps. the government called them relocation centers. the nazis called their concentration camps and their death camps labor camps. china called their concentration camps reeducation camps. governments never call these places what they really are. but the prisoners do. fort sill is an army base in lawton, oklahoma that was used as a concentration camp for japanese-americans during world war ii. and now the trump administration is planning to lock up 1,400 children at fort sill because they crossed our southern border. the unifying characteristic of c...