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
During the war, she and her family had been incarcerated in an internment camp in Wyoming; after, her parents returned to California, and she went to New York.
From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2024
Beyond those killed, thousands more were left homeless and living in a hastily constructed internment camp.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 9, 2023
In the aftermath of Japan’s 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, they were imprisoned in an incarceration camp — not an internment camp.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2023
Like Jeanne Wakatski, my family was also stripped of everything we owned and placed in an internment camp.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
