internment camp

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Ms. Gage deals with it by visiting the remnants of a Japanese internment camp at Manzanar, Calif., and the research facility in Los Alamos, N.M., where U.S. government scientists built the atomic bomb.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

Taken to a Japanese internment camp at Sumatra, she and fellow internee Norah Chambers set up a vocal orchestra.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2024

“His belief was that they were put in the internment camp because the United States was a scared country,” said his daughter Laura Rutizer.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2023

After the war, Miyamura met Terry Tsuchimori, a woman from a family who had been forced to live at the Poston internment camp in southwestern Arizona following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 30, 2022

Mas Okui, who was forced to leave his school and go live in a Japanese internment camp, ended up becoming a teacher.

From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers