What was the impact of the Cold War on the memory and understanding of the internment?

These concentration camps were called “relocation camps.” Japanese-Americans were referred to by their generation within the United States. The first generation ... May 21, 2020 ... Japanese internment camp survivor Homer Yasui. Photo courtesy: Homer ... Vasquez: You were detained at the Tule Lake Camp for several months. Dec 4, 2019 ... Instead, the Takei family, along with approximately 120,000 other Japanese Americans, were placed in camps solely because of their Japanese ... Many Americans feared that Japanese Americans were working with Japan from within the U.S. On Feb. 19, 1942, President Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 ... Feb 19, 1999 ... ... internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. The Justice ... In addition, ORA paid $5,000 to 145 Japanese Latin Americans who were ... Feb 17, 2017 ... Over the next six months, 120,000 men, women, and children of Japanese descent were taken from their homes and put into internment camps—nearly ... 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 ... Mar 5, 2017 ... They were intended to contain Japanese Americans while the sturdier and more permanent concentration camps in Tule Lake, California; Poston ... The proceeds were used to pay the costs of detaining Japanese Canadians. An internment camp for Japanese Canadians in British Columbia, 1945. At the camps, which were surrounded by barbed wire fences and patrolled by armed guards, internees often lived in overcrowded barracks with minimal furnishing.