Return to Internment Camp (You Tube)

This consists of four separate videos.

first video

She describes herself and the others as prisoners while they were at the camp. She talks about how, after Pearl Harbor, they were put on a five mile travel restriction, and how the FBI was picked people up. She also talks about the influence of the papers of the time.

She says anybody more than 1/16th Japanese blood was taken away. (I'm not sure I'm figuring this correctly, but I think that means anyone who had a relative that was a great grandmother or grandfather that was Japanese would qualify even if all their other relatives were not.)

second video

Some of those once interned in Poston are going back for a visit. The one woman talks about the three camps that made up Poston.

She also talks about the tremendous heat, and the community bathrooms.

third video

Some of the Nisei who joined the Army would come back to the camp when they had a furlough. Their parents and other relatives were there behind barbed wire. The Nisei helped liberate the prisoners from Dachau (even though Caucasian groups got the credit.)

fourth video

The video talks a lot about the relationship of the internees to the Native Americans, and how the Native Americans took over the area once the internees were finally freed, and were able to benefit from all the work that had been done to the land. It was a very great benefit for the Native Americans.



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