How did internees maintain their sense of identity and dignity in the face of adversity?

Feb 19, 2018 ... Many vegetables were grown right at the campsite, and we ate lots of cabbage. Ice cream and treats like that were available at the co-op, but we ... Dec 21, 2016 ... Pictures of people who were incarcerated at Manzanar War Relocation Center are displayed alongside family tags at Manzanar National Historic ... Inside the internment camps, Japanese Americans were faced with barracks type housing within isolated desert patches. They were under military confinement ... The residents were not required to work, but the guard towers and barbed-wire fences surrounding the camps denied them the freedom to move about as they pleased ... Jun 24, 2016 ... Families of Japanese ancestry were sent to hastily built “relocation” camps further inland. They had committed no crimes. Almost 2/3 of them were American ... Apr 29, 2017 ... Known as the Manzanar War Relocation Center during World War II, it was one of 10 sites where Japanese Americans were incarcerated for nearly four years. Apr 25, 2025 ... Japanese American internment was the forced relocation by the US government of thousands of Japanese Americans to detention camps during World War II, ... Fifteen were killed in action, and two received the nation's highest award, the Medal of Honor. Of the ten Japanese American confinement camps, Heart Mountain ... May 17, 2018 ... Medical professionals were also among those that were interned. The U.S. government conscripted these physicians and nurses to provide ... Nov 18, 2016 ... It is appalling to see the shameful confinement of Japanese-Americans in concentration camps ... The internees were not the only ones scarred.