Manzanar War Relocation Center
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Manzanar is one of ten concentration camps in the US that were used to hold
more then 100,000 Japanese Americans during World War II. It is located on the
eastern side of the Sierra Mountains between Lone Pine and Independence.
Manzanar is now run by the National Park Service as a National Historic site. |
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The park service is in the process of restoring/rebuilding some of the
structures that used to be there. In the visitors center they present a lot
of information on Manzanar and how life was for those interred there.
For us it was a real eye opener as this was not really covered by the public
school system I went to or the Catholic school system Karen went to. |
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To the left is a cafeteria the park service is rebuilding to look like it
did while people were there. There has been much debate about the name and
whether it should be referred to as a war relocation center, concentration
camp, internment camp and other names. Weather in this area of the Owens
valley has extremes from temperatures over 100 in the summer to
temperatures in the twenties in the winter and some snow. It can also be
very windy and dusty. The monument below was build by a prisoner stone
mason Ryozo Kado. An inscription on the front reads Soul Consoling Tower
and on the back (shown) Erected by the Manzanar Japanese. |
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