WWII Memorabilia

How were Japanese Americans treated in internment camps (WWII)?

Just tell me what you know about the conditions, the types of camps. Also, did most of them have the choice to move east instead of staying in the camps? Thanks.

I have a friend who was 18 when they were 1st interned. She said it was really hard on her father psychologically, having to give up his farm in California, worrying about how he would support his family when he got out but she said she had a blast. There were all those boys and new friends to meet and hang out with. She married a guy she met there. Her father had a friend that he did business with prior to the camp and his friend felt so bad for him that he had a box of fruit sent to him every week.

I also had 2 great uncles who got work building a camp outside Lamar, CO and they were there when the truckloads of Japanese were brought in. One of my uncles said it was heartbreaking to see these beautiful girls in their beautiful dresses being hauled in cattle trucks. He said they were sobbing when they saw where they'd be living. He was sobbing, too, for them.

They had to stay at the camp they were assigned to until the US gained the upper hand in the war, 43-44. They weren't there until VJ Day, I know that. Some of the men after taking loyalty oaths were able to fight in the war and their division was the most decorated division in the army. Daniel Inouye, the Senator from Hawaii, was in that division and he said they were in Mississippi for Basic Training and they had a commander who was briefing them on the segregation laws in the South, white and black water fountains, restrooms, etc and hemming and hahing about it all until he finally told them it was decided that they would use the white restrooms, etc and Inouye said after having been treated like potential traitors for so long, they were overjoyed that they could use the white facilities because they fully expected to be in the same boat as the Blacks.

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