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	Manzanar Internment Camp
		Manzanar and several other locations in the midwest and western states were used to intern more than one hundred thousand Japanese and Americans of Japanese ancestry during most of World War II.
		Manzanar was formerly a large ranch and lies in a high valley, hot in summer and cold in winter, on the eastern side of the Sierra near Bishop, California.
		This obelisk stands in the cemetery and was photographed by Ansel Adams in 1943 as part of his series on the internment camp (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/109_anse.html).
	www.astronomy-images.com /day-images/California/Manzanar/manzanar_internment_camp.htm (295 words)

	Manzanar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Manzanar National Historic Site (formerly the Manzanar War Relocation Center) was a Japanese American internment camp (concentration camp) during World War II that operated in the Owens Valley, between the towns of Lone Pine, California on the south, and Independence, California on the north.
		Manzanar (which means "apple orchard" in Spanish) is the best-known of the ten camps in which Japanese Americans, both citizens (including natural-born Americans) and resident aliens, were imprisoned during World War II.
		Farewell to Manzanar ISBN 0-553-27258-6 was written by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston in 1972, recounting her personal experiences in the camp as a seven year-old internee.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Manzanar (1001 words)

	Manzanar Japanese internment camp
		Manzanar National Historic Landmark (better known as Manzanar War Relocation Center) was a Japanese internment camp during World War II that operated near Independence, California.
		Manazanar was one of ten camps at which Japanese American citizens and resident Japanese "aliens" were interned as a "precautionary measure" during World War II.
		This particular camp held 10,046 internees at its height.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ma/Manzanar.html (331 words)

	Manzanar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Manzanar National Historic Landmark (better known as Manzanar War Relocation Center) was a Japanese American Internment camp during World War II that operated near Independence, California.
		Located at the foot of the imposing Sierra Nevada in eastern California's Owens Valley, Manzanar has been identified as the best preserved of these camps by the United States Park Service which maintains and is restoring the site as a United States National Historic Landmark.
		The novel Farewell to Manzanar was written by Jeanne Wakatsuki in 1972, recounting her personal experiences in the camp as a seven year-old internee.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/m/ma/manzanar.html (439 words)

	'Camp Dance' touching memory of internment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The internment camps created during World War II to quarantine Japanese Americans living on the West Coast are typically thought of as a shameful chapter in American history.
		Camp Dance is being performed Friday in conjunction with the Japanese American Citizens League national convention, taking place on the Gila River Reservation, not far from the site of the Gila River Relocation Center.
		The show also features a special appearance by singer Mary Kageyama Nomura, who, now in her 80s, was known as the "Songbird of Manzanar" when she was a teenager in the Manzanar internment camp in California.
	www.azcentral.com /arizonarepublic/mesa/articles/0622ar-campdance0622Z11.html (446 words)

	Manzanar
		The children, some with as little as one-eighth Japanese ancestry, were sent to a hastily built orphanage at the Manzanar internment camp, 200 miles northeast of Los Angeles.
		Manzanar's history is well documented and has seeped into the public consciousness through books, including "Snow Falling on Cedars" and "Farewell to Manzanar." But even experts on the camps contacted by The Times had either never heard of Children's Village or knew only that it had existed.
		The Army decided to move the orphans to Manzanar because it was the first camp to open and the closest to the three orphanages.
	home.att.net /~hirasaki3/Manzanar.htm (2146 words)

	A Day at Manzanar — March 30, 2006 — PCC-CourierOnline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Ling said Manzanar used to be an apple grove before the water in the Owens Valley was diverted and it became a desert.
		The internment camp was closed in November 1945 and became a state historic landmark in 1972.
		The Manzanar Pilgrimage began in 1969, but the first PCC students to go to Manzanar went in 1943 as detainees.
	www.pcc-courieronline.com /033006/feature/manzanar.html (492 words)

	II Journal: Toyo Miyatake's Boys Behind Barbed Wire
		The camps were located in remote and often inhospitable environments, as made evident in this photograph by the empty expanse of land beyond the guard tower and the brittle clusters of sage brush.
		The newspaper's caption for the photograph reads, "A historical photo shows unidentified children during World War II at the Manzanar internment camp, which has opened up for tours." The by-line, given as "Associated Press," appears to be incorrect because the photographer was not an unnamed AP employee, but a former internee named Toyo Miyatake.
		He achieved this by positioning his lens sympathetically, at their level, and by maximizing the discrepancy between the boys' diminutive stature and the oppressive height of the guard tower, which he visually connected to the position of the boys through the recessional lines of the barbed wire.
	www.umich.edu /~iinet/journal/vol6no1/alinder.html (2200 words)

	Beyond Manzanar virtual reality installation
		Beyond Manzanar is an exploration of the capabilities of virtual reality to provide a strong dramatic structure and still involve users in creating their own narrative, adding a sense of participation and responsibility for the events that happen to them in the course of their explorations.
		A realist reconstruction of the internment camp becomes a framework for interior visions of personal responses to the betrayal of the American Dream, and imagined landscapes of Japanese and Iranian gardens explore the healing processes of memory and cultural grounding.
		Manzanar, an oasis in the high desert of Eastern California, was the first of over 10 internment camps erected during World War II to incarcerate Japanese American families solely on the basis of their ancestry.
	www.mission-base.com /manzanar/articles/cosign/cosign.html (3558 words)

	Travel: Lessons of Manzanar \| manzanar, japanese, one - Victorville Daily Press
		Manzanar is located between Mount Whitney — at 14,495 feet — one of the highest mountain peaks in the United States, and Death Valley — at 282 feet below sea level — the lowest point in the Western Hemisphere.
		Manzanar was one of 10 War Relocation Centers created to house the entire Japanese and Japanese-American population, especially from the West Coast, as a response to Dec. 7, 1941 when much of America first became aware that there was a Pearl Harbor, and what it meant to them.
		Manzanar is not a place on a map; it is a wild place of wind and intense summer heat followed by bitter cold in the winter.
	www.vvdailypress.com /travel/manzanar_2373___article.html/japanese_one.html (1495 words)

	The Camps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		As a result, it was made a "segregation camp" and was used to hold prisoners from other camps who had also refused to take the loyalty oath.
		Before it was leased from the City of Los Angeles, Manzanar used to be ranch and farm land until it reverted to desert conditions.
		Manzanar was transfered from the WCCA to WRA on June 1, 1942, and converted into a "relocation camp."
	www.lm.liverpool.k12.ny.us /Whacked/Manzanar1/camps.html (953 words)

	ESL - Textbooks - Farewell to Manzanar
		Farewell to Manzanar is the true story of one spirited Japanese American family's attempt to survive the indignities of forced detention...
		Jeanne Wakatsuki was seven years old in 1942 when her family was uprooted from their home and sent to live at Manzanar internment camp—with ten thousand other Japanese Americans.
		Manzanar War Relocation Center was one of ten camps at which Japanese American citizens and resident Japanese aliens were interned during World War II.
	lpc1.clpccd.cc.ca.us /lpc/ESL/textbooks/manzanar.htm (336 words)

	Manzanar - Reassembling the Internment Camp
		Manzanar, Calif. - A piece of Manzanar came home this week, trucked down U.S. 395 past the snowy teeth of the Eastern Sierra to the empty flats on which it once stood.
		For many, internment was a dreadful, humiliating experience, a brutal reminder of America's racism and its historic demonization of Asian immigrants.
		Manzanar in the early 1900s, when it was promoted as an orchard man's paradise.
	www.owensvalleyhistory.com /manzanar6/page17c.html (1456 words)

	Farewell to Manzanar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Farewell to Manzanar is a memoir published in 1972 by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James D. Houston.
		The book describes Wakatsuki Houston's and her family's experience being detained at the Manzanar internment camp as part of the United States government's internment of Japanese-Americans after the attack on Pearl Harbor during World War II.
		Jeanne, a Nisei (American-born child of Japanese immigrants) was seven years old at the time, and had spent very little time around other Asians.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Farewell_to_Manzanar (249 words)

	The Diamond at Manzanar
		More than that, due to the symbolic role that baseball played in the camps, the restoration of the diamond would be an important part of America's coming to terms with Internment.
		The baseball diamonds at Manzanar and the other nine federal 'relocation camps' comprised the very heart of the internment experience for most of the surviving internees.
		To rebuild the baseball diamond at Manzanar is to thank them for retaining their faith in this country, even when they had no reason to do so.
	thediamondangle.com /archive/july04/manzanardiamond.html (2492 words)

	Manzanar
		Welcome to my site where I am compiling information documenting the history of the "internees" of Manzanar who snuck out of the barbed wire under the noses of armed military guards to seek a brief feeling of freedom to go trout fishing during their internment as a result of Executive Order 9066 during WWII.
		In the early days of the camp, there was the eminent possiblity of getting shot at if they were out of bounds.
		The stories are about the brave souls who took risks to enjoy their brief moments of "freedom" by sneaking out of the barbed wire to do something an everyday man took for granted...
	home.earthlink.net /~fearnotrout (545 words)

	Farewell to Manzanar.
		The author, Jeanne Wakatsuki, was seven years old in 1942 when she and her family were uprooted from their home and sent to live at Manzanar internment camp – with ten thousand other Japanese Americans.
		Manzanar was located in the Sierra Nevada mountains of central California; though very little of the camp remains today, there is an excellent visitors' center, with displays that tell the story of the people who lived there.
		Farewell to Manzanar is the true story of one Japanese American family's attempt to survive the indignities of forced detention, and of a native-born American child who discovered what it was like to grow up behind barded wire in the United States.
	tucson.home.att.net /read/manzanar.html (485 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > State -- At internment camp site, a question of baseball
		The 10,000 Japanese-Americans taken to the Owens Valley camp had no privacy and lived in cramped barracks in a single square mile fenced in by barbed-wire.
		Tucked between the Sierra Nevada and Death Valley, Manzanar was one of 10 camps nationwide where 120,000 Japanese-Americans were detained during the war because they were considered security risks.
		Bo Sakaguchi, a 78-year-old retired Los Angeles dentist who came to the camp when he was 16, said the camp should first rebuild a guard tower.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/state/20031016-0002-wst-internmentbaseball.html (974 words)

	Southern California InFocus - Pilgrimage to MANZANAR
		One of the internment camps was Manzanar (Spanish for apple orchard) War Relocation Center in the Owens Valley, about 200 miles northeast of Los Angeles.
		Carol Hironaka arrived at Manzanar at the tender age of 17, and was freed when she was 20.
		And perhaps the most powerful symbol of life at internment camp was the names of all 10,000 internees on display at the Center.
	www.infocusnews.net /content/view/14652/135 (1171 words)

	A Hotlist on Internment Camps
		Manzanar - America's Concentration Camp - A camp where Americans of Japanese descent were interned during the war because of rampant anti-Japanese fears in the United States during World War Two.
		Manzanar - California Ghost Town - For five years after the war until the early 1950's Manzanar remained as a community until the Japanese Americans living there returned to the cities of their residence prior to the war.
		Camp Harmony - 'In the spring of 1942, just months after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, more than 100,000 residents of Japanese ancestry were forcefully evicted by the army from their homes in Washington, Oregon, California, Arizona and Alaska, and sent to nearby temporary assembly centers.
	www.kn.sbc.com /wired/fil/pages/listinternmelm.html (1744 words)

	Amazon.ca: Farewell to Manzanar: Books: Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston,James D. Houston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		During World War II a community called Manzanar was hastily created in the high mountain desert country of California, east of the Sierras.
		It is particularly intriguing to watch how the internment camp evolved into "a world unto itself, with its own logic"--a "desert ghetto." During the course of the book the authors discuss many important topics: religion, education, anti-Asian bigotry, the impact of the Pearl Harbor attack, the military service of Japanese-Americans during the war, and more.
		The whole book took place in the camp Manzanar for a really long time and some different, interesting things happened while they were there but not much.
	www.amazon.ca /Farewell-Manzanar-Jeanne-Wakatsuki-Houston/dp/0808510894 (1737 words)

	Manzanar National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)
		Manzanar War Relocation Center was one of ten camps where Japanese American citizens and resident Japanese aliens were interned during World War II.
		Manzanar is located in the Owens Valley at 4,000' elevation, at the eastern base of the Sierra Nevada.
		Eight guard towers were built around the perimeter of the camp.
	www.nps.gov /manz (283 words)

	Beyond Manzanar virtual reality installation
		Manzanar was the first of over 10 internment camps erected to incarcerate Japanese Americans during World War II.
		In the 1980s the American courts declared this internment to have been "not justified," but the principle of mass internment of an entire ethnic group on the grounds of military necessity still stands.
		As you explore the camp your kinesthetic sense is engaged to underscore the emotional impact of confinement.
	www.mission-base.com /manzanar/history/origins.html (355 words)

	Manzanar Portraits 1
		MANZANAR RINGO-EN All Manzanar photographs from the Ansel Adams Library of Congress Archives unless otherwise noted.
		Describing Manzanar and the others as "concentration camps" conjures horrible images of the ovens of Dachau under the Nazis, or the Soviet Gulag in Siberia.
		As bad as they were, the American concentration camps never approached the horrifying conditions of the camps in Europe.
	www.owensvalleyhistory.com /manzanar1/page10.html (412 words)

	:: The ACLU of Massachusetts :: Book Club :: Japanese-American Internment
		The internment of the Japanese-Americans during World War II is widely regarded as the greatest single violations of civil liberties in all of American history.
		Farewell to Manzanar is a moving memoir by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston who was seven years old when she and her family were removed from Los Angeles and sent to the Relocation Center in Manzanar, California.
		There are many books on the Japanese-American internment, but this book brings the story alive as a human tragedy: the shock of losing one’s home, the indignities of living in a barracks that cannot keep out the blowing sand, and a young girl watching the devastating psychological effect of the internment on her father.
	www.aclum.org /bookclub/internment.html (566 words)

	Asian American Empowerment: ModelMinority.com - Japanese American History Given Its Due
		Manzanar, a square-mile plot at the base of the eastern Sierra where as many as 10,000 Japanese Americans were interned during World War II, takes on renewed meaning after Sept. 11.
		Critics claim that the use of the term dishonors the victims of the Nazi death camps; supporters argue that the term is historically accurate, and point to the numerous academics, military officials, and even U.S. presidents who have preferred the term over the more euphemistic "internment camp" label.
		Her primary argument was that the camps were a "military necessity," a defense made during the war but later rejected by the national Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians.
	www.modelminority.com /printout79.html (3776 words)

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