Japanese Internment
Take this virtual field trip to understand more about the experiences of Japanese Americans during World War II.
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Read an article filled with quotes and first-hand accounts of what Santa Anita was like during the time Takei was housed there
Watch this propaganda video from the U.S. Office of War Information produced in 1943 to understand what the government was telling people as they removed Japanese Americans from their homes.
A tribute to Wayne Collins, the man who fought for Takei's mother, written by George Takei
Take a virtual tour of Tule Lake, read stories of the individuals who were kept there, and learn more about the history of this center
Read the background of Rohwer, the Japanese American Relocation Center that Takei's family stayed at the longest
Related Fiction in Our Library
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Kiku is on vacation in San Francisco when suddenly she finds herself displaced to the 1940s Japanese-American internment camp that her late grandmother, Ernestina, was forcibly relocated to during World War II.
After his father is killed in the attack on Pearl Harbor, Adam, his mother, and sister are evacuated from Hawaii to California, where he must deal with his feelings about the war, Japanese internment camps, his father, and his own identity
Set in a horrifying near-future United States, seventeen-year-old Layla Amin and her parents are forced into an internment camp for Muslim American citizens.
Related Non-Fiction in Our Library
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The American-born author describes her family's experience and impressions when they were forced to relocate to a camp for the Japanese in Owens Valley, California, during World War II
Investigates the Supreme Court ruling on the internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War, describing the back story, the key people, and the political climate that shaped the decision
The author provides an account of his experiences during World War II when he and his family were incarcerated, along with other Japanese-Americans, in an internment camp, and discusses the struggles faced by Japanese-Americans as they tried to reenter society after the war
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