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

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

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2024

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

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