Monday, March 6, 2017

Rarely seen color photos of Japanese families confined in Wyoming show internment camp 75 years later

Via David

More than 120,000 Japanese immigrants and Japanese-Americans were forced into internment camps across the American West after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. Above a family enjoys an outing to the Shoshone River  at Heart Mountain internment camp in Wyoming in the 1940s

Rarely seen color photographs capture how more than 120,000 Japanese immigrants and Japanese-Americans were forced into internment camps across the American West after President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 more than 75 years ago. 

Public Law 503 was passed by Congress on March 21, 1942 which resulted in the relocation of Japanese immigrants and Japanese-Americans to one of 10 internment camps located in the American West.

Adults, including the elderly, and children were transported by bus and train with few belongings as they were forced to confinement camps leaving their homes and businesses behind with less than 48 hours of notice that they would be forced out. 

They were sent, ostensibly to avoid sabotage and spying, to camps in California, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona and other states as far away as Arkansas as war hysteria gripped the nation and citizens feared another attack after the Japanese attack on Pear Harbor. 

Internees, as they were called, were prohibited from having cameras inside the camps. But that rule was not strictly forced at Heart Mountain, located in Wyoming, where amateur photographer Bill Manbo and his family were forced to reside in 1942.

More @ Daily Mail

6 comments:

  1. The article I read a few yrs. ago stated their property was
    stolen by jealous Americans, their belongings auctioned off,
    their assets in the banks, confiscated, never to be returned.
    They were forced to leave with one suitcase of belongings.
    Many committed suicide. Typical FDR despicableness.
    The German American citizens were done in much the same way.

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    1. Thanks and if you have a link, please let me know. About either nationality.

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  2. I can't locate the original link, of course, but here are a
    couple. Note paragraph 12, re: 'communist party.' Sound
    familiar? ( communism was encouraged )
    http://www.ihr.org/jhr/v02/v02p-45_Weber.html also.....
    http://fear.org/RMillerJ-A.html
    Off topic but heard on the news a zoo in France was broken
    into and a White Rhino was killed and the horn chainsawed
    off. First this has ever happened. Savages???????

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    1. Hadn't heard the latter. Insane. Thanks. https://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2017/03/the-japanese-camps-in-california-world.html

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  3. It seems the Germans and Italians were not demonized like
    the Japanese were which is considered brutalized.
    http://germaninternment.blogspot.com/#!
    Interesting pic of a German internment camp in Hot Springs,
    North Carolina. I live pretty close to Hot Springs but
    never saw this:
    http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/us-confiscated-half-billion-dollars-private-property-during-wwi-180952144/

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    1. It seems the Germans and Italians were not demonized like the Japanese were which is considered brutalized.

      I imagine due to the difference in the treating of our POW's in the two countries and their races.Thanks.

      https://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2017/03/nc-us-confiscated-half-billion-dollars.html#

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