What is the role of museums and historical sites in preserving the memory of the internment?

Feb 19, 2021 ... From 1942 to 1945, it was the policy of the U.S. government that people of. Japanese descent would be interred in isolated camps. During World ... Aug 10, 1988 ... ... Japanese ancestry living in the United States were forcibly removed from their homes and placed in makeshift internment camps. This action ... 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. 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 ... Just hours after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, approximately 1,291 Japanese. American community and religious leaders were arrested by ... May 30, 2018 ... The government called this process “internment” or “relocation” and labeled the prison centers “frontier camps. ... If Japanese Americans were ... Jun 26, 2018 ... ... Japanese Americans leave their homes and jobs for internment camps. Over 117,000 Japanese were ultimately removed from their homes. Civil ... May 24, 2017 ... Bill Shishima, Helen Yasuda, Madeleine Sugimoto, and Mas Yamashita were all children when their families were forced to enter the internment camps during World ... Assembly Centers were temporary camps providing housing for the evacuated Japanese-Americans while permanent internment camps were constructed. Click dots ... Feb 17, 2017 ... "Like Nazi Germany, we Japanese Americans were put into concentration camps," said Okazaki, now 82, while recognising that detainees were not ...