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Manzanar Memorial with USA flag
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Manzanar Historic Site in California

USA

By Contested Histories Initiative

During World War II, the U.S. Government incarcerated thousands of Japanese Americans in so-called War Relocation Centres around the country. One of them was the Manzanar Relocation Center, which at its peak, housed around 11,000 detainees. Incarcerated behind barbed wire and guard towers, Japanese American families lost their freedom which… Read More