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  • Manzanar Relocation Center, 1943
    Manzanar Relocation Center, 1943
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    Inside the Camps

    As anti-Asian violence surges, revisiting the history of Japanese Americans who were sent to internment camps during WWII

    byNaomi Sandweiss
  • Left: Young evacuees of Japanese ancestry await internment at Turlock, California, May 2, 1942. Middle: Newspaper clipping from The Seattle Times. Right: Winter storm, Manzanar Relocation Center, California, 1943.
    Left: Young evacuees of Japanese ancestry await internment at Turlock, California, May 2, 1942. Middle: Newspaper clipping from The Seattle Times. Right: Winter storm, Manzanar Relocation Center, California, 1943.
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    How a Seattle Synagogue Made News by Hiring a New Custodian

    When Japanese immigrant Eddie Otsuka was released from an internment camp in 1945, nobody would hire him—except one rabbi who saw parallels in their personal plights

    byEric Muller
  • The evacuation of the Japanese Americans from West Coast areas under U.S. Army war emergency order. Japanese Americans going to camp at Owens Valley gather around a baggage car at the old Santa Fe Station in Los Angeles
    The evacuation of the Japanese Americans from West Coast areas under U.S. Army war emergency order. Japanese Americans going to camp at Owens Valley gather around a baggage car at the old Santa Fe Station in Los Angeles
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    Why Didn’t FDR Help European Jews? Hints in His Decision to Intern Japanese Americans

    Now, 75 years after the Supreme Court upheld the internment of civilians in World War II, it may revisit the ruling

    byRafael Medoff
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