Why the US photographed its own WWII concentration camps
Dorothea Lange’s photos of the incarceration of Japanese Americans went largely unseen for decades.
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Dorothea Lange’s photos of the incarceration of Japanese Americans went largely unseen for decades.
A California woman remembers her time in a World War II internment camp
They stood united with the government, and yet many were displaced from their homes. WWII was indeed a tumultuous time for the Natives.
For decades after the war, those who had been incarcerated focused on rebuilding their lives and suppressed their feelings about their wrongful imprisonment.
Japanese-American Bethlehem resident Roland Yoshida recently shared memories of talking to his parents about their experiences in internment camps during World War 2.