Japanese Interment Camps
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Japanese Culture |
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| This website gives a hands on approach to learning about Japanese culture. | |
| The Japanese had lived in the United States for over 60 years before WWII. Read about them before, during and after the interment years. | |
| The interment years affects many survivors to this day. Read this recent article from the L.A. Times to learn more. | |
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| Pearl Harbor and the Aftermath | |
| Watch the Attack Map to see the timeline of events or Pearl Harbor, Hawaii on December 7, 1941. | |
| Learn from first hand accounts of Japanese Americans responses hours after Pearl Harbor. | |
| This organization offers many reasons why they feel Japanese-Americans were put into internment camps. Click on the columns to the left or right of the screen to learn more. | |
| This site explores the events leading to the internment of Japanese Americans through music, photos, first-person accounts and text. | |
| Signed by President Roosevelt, this piece of paper committed thousands of Japanese Americans to internment camps. | |
| What does September 11, 2001 and December 7, 1941 have in common. Find out by listening to the stories of these people. | |
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| Life in an Internment Camp | |
| This website offers a brief overview of the history of internment camps. Note the 360 degree pictures under the multimedia tab. | |
| This website offers many primary objects to study about internment life. These objects include photos, documents, manuscripts, paintings, drawings, letters and oral histories. | |
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| Life in Manzanar | |
| What is Manzanar like today? Go on a virtual tour and get a 360 degree look from over 20 different locations. | |
| Look at pictures taken at Manzanar by the famed photographer Ansel Adams in1943. | |
| Where Reality and "Farewell to Manzanar" Meet | |
| This site can take awhile to load but it's worth it. Type in the last name "Wakatsuki" and on the "Select from Code List" for relocation project link. Click Manzanar (code number 1) and then click submit. Then click the submit button at the bottom of the main window. The Wakatsuki family at Manazar will appear. Click on View Record to read more about each family member. | |
| Japanese Internment Camp Library Materials | ||
| Farewell to Manzanar | B HOU | An autobiographical account of one woman's experience at the Manzanar Relocation Camp. |
| The Invisible Thread: an autobiography | B UCH | Describes the author's life before and during the internment of her family during WWII. |
| When Justice Failed: the Fred Korematsu story | B KOR | Relates the life and experiences of the Japanese American who defied the order of internment during WWII and took his case as far as the Supreme Court. |
| Life in a Japanese American Internment Camp | 940.53 YAN | Discusses the course of Japanese immigration into the United States, events leading to the relocation of Japanese Americans during WWII, and the conditions they faced in the internment camps. |
| Remembering Manzanar: life in a Japanese relocation camp | 940.54 COO | This book uses firsthand accounts, oral histories, and essays to tell the story of the Japanese Americans who were sent to live in government-run internment camps during WWII. |
| Boy No More | F MAZ | After his father is killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, Adam, his mother, and sister are evacuated from Hawaii to California, where he must deal with his feelings about the war, Japanese internment camps, his father, and his own identity. |
Page Updated 8/30/2008