internment
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In 1942 he entered one of the government’s Japanese internment camps.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026
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
Repatriated to Amsterdam, Elfriede - who was known as Fritzi - married Otto Frank, the father of Anne Frank, who had also managed to survive internment by the Nazis.
From BBC • Jan. 4, 2026
I’m not sure I knew internment had happened, or understood its scale, before I reached adulthood.
From Salon • Jul. 6, 2025
They’d been married at the Manzanar internment camp in a tar paper Buddhist chapel.
From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson
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