The Children of Topaz

The book starts out about the worries the people had on the West Coast just after the war started. It also covers the fact that only one-third of the Japanese Americans were first generation from Japan and the kinds of prejudice they all faced.

Then it goes into how the interment started and what followed the start. A physical description of the camp follows along with a description of the guard towers. The book also covers the loyalty questionnaire that caused so much trouble and has some material on what the young people did in the camp, although not as much as one would expect from the title of the book.

Main Index
Japan main page
Japanese-American Internment Camps index page
Japan and World War II index page