Japanese Internment

After the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, on December 7, 1941, America was pulled into World War II. Japanese Americans who lived here, distrusted by government officials and many of their neighbors, were forced to move to Internment Camps for much of the rest of the war. Regardless of their age or innocence, Japanese Americans and their families were considered possible spies and were treated as such.

Click here to see a Government newsreel made by the US War Relocation Authority in 1943.

Click here to listen to a Japanese American woman who remembers what it was like, as a Japanese American child, to hear about Pearl Harbor being bombed by the Japanese.

Click here to listen to a Japanese American woman telling what it was like when her father was arrested by the FBI.