Internments

beds behind and live in internment camps. They were living in conditions that were even unfavorable for animals. When you hear about these internment or concentration camps, you may think of other countries, such as Russia or Germany. What people don’t realize that there were camps like this right here in the United States. The American government, under the orders of President Franklin Roosevelt, singled out anyone who looked Japanese and put them in the internment camps. There were…

Jews were forbidden from owning gold, jewelry, or any other valuables. Most of the Jews buried all their valuables in a cellar. The inmates were tightly packed into the train wagons. They did not have the freedom to choose where they wanted to go,what they wore, and what they ate.They weren’t even able to sit comfortably. “Men to the left! Woman to the right!” Families were broken apart, children were punished, and the right of a child to be with their parents was denied. “Strip! Hurry up! Raus…

similar experiences as Louie and other POWs in the Japanese-American internment camps. Mine Okubo and Louie both suffered from dehumanization while in war, but they were able to persevere through the hardships faced during the war. Throughout Louie’s…

seen as enemies of the state by many in the public who suffered from a myopic view of the situation abroad at this time. The fear of treason and attack led the U.S. government down the path of internment camps. Within a very short time, many Japanese-Americans were moved in mass from the West Coast to internment camps around the country. One of these camps was called ‘Camp Harmony’ and a prisoner of this camp named Ben Yorita writes about what the experience at the camp did to his family and…

learning about my family history. By discovering and studying my family history, my general understanding of history has been significantly broadened. My mother's family is of Japanese descent, and my grandpa and his family were held in Japanese internment camps during the Second World War. When my grandpa passed away, I was only 10, and in elementary school we had barely brushed over the details of World War Two- other than the facts that Franklin D. Roosevelt was good, Adolf Hitler was bad,…

Japanese populations in the country. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the internment of all those of Japanese ancestry into camps during the executive order 9066. Over one hundred and twenty thousand people of Japanese ancestry were taken from their homes and placed into camps where they had to stay during the years of World War II. Over two thirds of these Japanese people were American citizens. Living in the internment camps was a "living hell" as described from former internees.…

A Camp? Eleven Million People were killed during the holocaust, six million of them were Jewish, and one million were children! There were about six major death camps that consist of the same ideas. This means they killed and did many things the exact same thing as each other. This event will change the future for many people in Germany especially Jews, forever! To start off, how would the nazi soldiers kill the Jews and many other people at these camps? One of the main uses was the gas…

the relocation of the Japanese Americans and Nazi treatment of the European Jews. The Nazis were putting European Jews into death camps and taking their rights of a human being. The Japanese, like the Jews, were also put into camps but they were internment camps. For them both they were citizens that were seen as threats against the people. These threats, such as Jews with inferior anti-semitism and Japanese with the accusation of being spies. In both instances, the victims showed no signs of…

In addition, many families were so hastily forced out of there homes that families did not have sufficient time to pack and prepare for proper weather conditions, and some families were forced to leave with just the clothes on their backs. Some internment camps, such as the Heart Mountain War Relocation center in northwestern Wyoming, was just a portion of land with cramped military barracks, unpartitioned toilets, cots for beds, and a barb-wired fence surrounding it all. In 1944, the Supreme…

mankind such as the Holocaust and Japanese Internment, which made thousands and millions of people suffer from brutality. The Holocaust was an event which pure racism led to a hideous massacre of six million Jewish people by the Nazi Germany, those people also…