evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945

Mary Matsuda Gruenwald recounts the experiences she and her family had after being evacuated to an internment camp for Japanese-Americans during World War II.

A first-person story telling of the U.S. internment of persons of Japanese ancestry during World War II.

Photographs and text recount the experiences of Japanese Americans who were incarcerated at concentration camps during World War II.

A young girl, a third generation Japanese American, describes her experiences with her family after they were forced to leave their homes and imprisoned in an internment camp in Manzanar, California, during World War II.

Presents a detailed history of the treatment of the Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War II, discussing evacuations, internment camps and their military service.

Kimi Grant's grandmother was a missing link to Kimi's Japanese heritage. Growing up in rural Pennsylvania, all Kimi wanted was to fit in and she ignored traditional Japanese cuisine and her grandfather's attempts to teach her the language. But Kimi was interested in one part of her grandparents lives: they had been prisoners in the Japanese American camps out west during World War II.

During the early war years, 11,000 persons of Japanese ancestry, most of them American citizens, were interned in ten relocation centers. The largest of these was Manzanar, which was bounded by barbed wire and guard towers. There, they waited for the war to end so they could resume their lives.

Documents the fifteen assembly centers, ten relocation centers, and the internment camps that Japanese-Americans were moved to during World War II. Information is based on archival research, field visits, and interviews with former residents.