L.A

Japanese Interment Camps

By Katie & Ross

The house was built out of raw lumber and within 3 weeks mushrooms were growing in the floor.

Racetracks, fairgrounds and any

other open areas is where the

center would be held.

Mattresses were stuffed with straw.

Enclosed by barbed wire and guarded

by armed sentries in towers.

• Two more camps were in Arizona.
• Temperatures reached 115 degrees at the latter.
• Japanese poured water on their canvas cots to keep cool.
• Many business's went out of business.

• The apartments had no closets, cupboards, or furniture.
• Nisei's joined the army before the bombing of Pearl Harbor
• Ten people assigned to the twelve- by -twelve foot room.
• On a concrete slab down the center of the room, toilet bowls were arranged in pairs, back to back.

People wrote to each other and packages were "lost" by the police while inspecting the contents.

Camouflage workers threatened to go on strike because the chemicals used for dyeing burlap caused to break out in rashes and sent them to the hospital.

These camps were called America's Concentration Camps, and the U.S. did not realize that they were doing the exact same thing as the nazis.

Their clothes and baggage were checked before they could go in to the center

With 18,000 men, women and children, Santa Anita was the bigget assembly center.

photo credit Nasa / Goddard Space Flight Center / Reto Stöckli