evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945

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evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945

Concentration camps, North America

Japanese in the United States and Canada during World War II
1981

Obasan

Naomi Nakane, a child of Japanese immigrant parents, is interned by the Canadians at the beginning of World War II when she is five years old.
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How did this happen here?

Incorporates primary source materials in a look at the internment of Japanese Americans in camps following the attack on Pearl Harbor, including discussion of what became of their homes, businesses, and belongings.
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Sylvia & Aki

When Aki's family is sent to a Japanese internment camp at the beginning of World War II, Sylvia's family leases their farm. But Sylvia also faces discrimination, as a Mexican American. Includes black-and-white photographs of the real Sylvia and Aki.
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Whispered silences

Japanese Americans and World War II
Collection of photographs taken at the sites of the ten American detention camps to which 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry were sent during World War II, accompanied by text that tells the story of the camps from the perspective of former internees.
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Silent honor

Eighteen-year-old Hiroko comes to California in 1941 to attend college at Berkley, but even her love for teaching assistant Peter Jenkins cannot keep her from longing for home. Sadly, her dream of returning to Japan ends with the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and Hiroko must learn to survive in her rapidly changing world.
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Imprisoned

the betrayal of Japanese Americans during World War II
Suspicion towards Japanese Americans swept the country after Japan's sneak attack on Pearl Harbor; this book offers an in-depth look at the lives of some of the survivors of internment camps, before and during their imprisonment, and after their release.

The invisible thread

[an autobiography]
Children's author Uchida, who grew up in California as a second-generation Japanese American, describes her childhood and her family's internment in a Nevada concentration camp during World War II.

Desert exile

the uprooting of a Japanese American family
The author tells the story of her Japanese-American family's imprisonment in a U.S. internment camp during World War II.
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