During the 1940s, more than 110,000 Japanese-Americans were relocated by the US to internment camps during World War II.

GRANADA, COLORADO—UPI reports that Camp Amache, a World War II-era Japanese internment camp located in southeastern […]

Clipping stories on their migration at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. Manzanar, California, 1942 Evacuee mother and child ready to board a train which will take them to an assembly center where evacuees of Japanese ancestry will await transfer to War Relocation Authority centers to spend the duration. 1942 Evacuee mothers, with their babies, getting acquainted at the Santa Anita Assembly center where evacuees from this area are awaiting transfer to a War Relocation Authority center to spend the duration. 1942 Evacuees of Japanese ancestry move into this War Relocation Authority center. Manzanar, California, 1942 Evacuees of Japanese ancestry waiting for the bus which will take them to the Salinas Assembly Center. They will later be transferred to a War Relocation Authority center to spend the duration. 1942 In the doorway of her barrack apartment at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. Manzanar, California, 1942 Mealtime during early days after evacuation at Manzanar, now a War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. In housing, as well as at meal times, family life is observed. 1942 Mother and child evacuees of Japanese descent on train en route to War Relocation Authority center at Manzanar, California. 1942 Persons of Japanese ancestry arrive at the Santa Anita Assembly Center from San Pedro, California. Evacuees lived at this center at the Santa Anita race track before being moved inland to relocation centers. 1942 Relocated Nisei girls getting a bucket of water from one of the hydrants at this relocation center. Manzanar, California, 1942 Residents of Japanese ancestry being moved from Los Angeles harbor before eventual resettlement in War Relocation Authority centers where, as in evacuation, the family unit is kept intact. 1942 Seated in family groups, evacuees of Japanese ancestry check in at the Armory before moving to an assembly center. They will be transferred later to a War Relocation Authority center. 1942 Special food formulae are prepared for babies at Manzanar reception center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. 1942 This little evacuee is being vaccinated by an evacuee nurse, and doctor, as are other evacuees upon arrival at War Relocation Authority centers. Manzanar, California, 1942 Unpacking in their quarters. Rear, Eva (left) and Emiko Yamashita. Front, Michi Yamashita (left), and Taka Sakai. Family groups are kept intact. Manzanar, California, 1942 Washday for this family of Japanese ancestry at the Santa Anita Assembly Center. 1942 Waving to departing friends who are leaving for assembly centers. All residents of Japanese ancestry from designated military areas will eventually be housed in War Relocation Authority Centers to spend the duration. 1942 Young evacuees of Japanese ancestry arrive here by train prior to being transferred by bus to Manzanar, now a War Relocation Authority center. 1942 A ping pong game on a home-made table occupies the attention of these young evacuees of Japanese descent at Santa Anita Assembly center. 1942 Frieda Lakahama of Long Beach, California, joins in window washing at Santa Anita Park assembly center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. 1942

During World War II, Japanese Americans were incarcerated at Honouliuli Gulch, Sand Island, and the US Immigration Station on Oahu, the Kilauea Military Camp on the Big Island, Haiku Camp and Wailu…

The full caption for this photograph reads: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Mealtime in one of the messhalls at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.

An exhibit at LA's Skirball Cultural Center features photos that three photographers — Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams and Toyo Miyatake — took at the Manzanar internment camp.

During World War II, more than 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry were relocated and incarcerated for years following Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor...

During the 1940s, more than 110,000 Japanese-Americans were relocated by the US to internment camps during World War II.

The story of the “strandees”—the period term for Nisei trapped in Japan when passage back to the U.S. was effectively cut off from late 1941 until a year two after...

In 1942, Executive Order 9066 sent tens of thousands of Americans to internment camps. And history is repeating itself.

The internment of Japanese-Americans into camps during World War II was one of the most flagrant violations of civil liberties in American history. According to the census of 1940, 127,000…

In 1942, Dorothea Lange was hired by the US government to document the Japanese internment. When they saw her photos, they censored them for decades after.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered the relocation of over 120,000 Japanese-American citizens into internment camps. These camps were spread across the …

QUICK FACTS Why Hastings Park? The fairgrounds were used for military training in the First World War, 1914-1918. The grounds were expropriated again in 1942 by the Department of National Defense. …

During the 1940s, more than 110,000 Japanese-Americans were relocated by the US to internment camps during World War II.

A listener compares the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II to the Jewish Holocaust under the Nazis and raises the question of what to call the camps used in both experiences. At stake is the power of words in framing our actions, past and future.

Part 10 of a weekly 20-part retrospective of World War II