JAPANESE INTERNMENT CAMPS

ISSEI AND NISEI

• Issei- first generation immigrants
• Nisei- second generation (born in immigrate country)

MAP OF CAMPS

• Closest to Aurora- Granada (Amache) Colorado

HOW LONG WWERE THEY THERE?

• 4 years

WHAT WAS CAMP LIKE?

• Horrible conditions, army-style grub to eat, stables or barracks to live in.

DIFFERENCE IN THR CAMPS

• Assembly Center- military run
• Concentration camp- people incarcerated
• Department of Justice-held those suspected of crimes or of "enemy sympathies."

HOW MANY PEOPLE SENT TO THE INTERNMENT CAMPS?

• 120,000 people

HARDSHIPS

• Housed in barracks or horse stables
• Internees died from inadequate medical care or high emotional stress
• Loss of irreplaceable personal property

COURT CASES

• Hirabayashi v. United States (1943)- curfew violates his 5th amendment right of due process
• Ex parte Endo (1944)- filed habeas corpus

APOLOGIES

• U.S. released a formal apology and $20,000 compensation to each surviving victim, 1988