MANZANAR, Calif. — Guard Tower No. 8 has returned to Manzanar, a vivid symbol of what the place was and what it was not. Above all, it shows that living here, for Japanese American families, was not ...
Manzanar National Historic Site arborist Dave Goto walks among pear trees in an orchard on the former 814-acre Japanese American internment camp in Manzanar. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) ...
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The girls were 7 when Executive Order 9066 uprooted their lives in Los Angeles. That April, in 1942, both ended up more than 200 miles away from their homes at the same desolate area in the arid Owens ...
It's taken a lifetime for Hank Umemoto to make peace with what happened more than 70 years ago. Umemoto was 13 when he and his family were taken away from their vineyard in Florin, Calif. His father ...
When Jeelanne Khattab learned about Manzanar for the first time this year, she immediately knew that she needed to visit the site where more than 10,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated during ...
The students huddled together, trying to keep warm amid low temperatures and heavy gusts of wind. More than 250 miles from their homes in sunny Orange County, the harsh climate of Manzanar, which sits ...
A skeleton found by hikers this fall near California's second-highest peak was identified Friday as a Japanese American artist who had left the Manzanar internment camp to paint in the mountains in ...
Editors note: This essay was originally published in 2015, coinciding with the 70th anniversary of the closing of internment camps. The defining moment for many Japanese Americans of my parents' ...
It’s hard to believe that more than 10,000 people once lived on the barren stretch of land that is now known as the Manzanar National Historic Site. Located adjacent to U.S. 395, about five miles ...
A howling wind kicked up dust at Manzanar National Historic Site, where Japanese-Americans were interned during World War II. A racially and ethnically diverse crowd streamed out of buses and cars and ...
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