MANZANAR CONCENTRATION CAMP

BACKGROUND

• 1942 Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor
• 1942 executive order to relocate Japanese from Hawaii
• Japanese americans were taken to "relocation camp"
• Called relocation camp but surrounded by barbed wire and gurards

LIFE AT CAMP

• Everyone in camp was assigned duties
• Japanese were allowed to play sports in spare time
• People had jobs such as nurses, mess hall workers, and teachers

LIVING CONDITIONS

• Very little privacy
• Summer temperatures easily above 100 degrees
• Winter temperatures below 20 degrees
• No air conditioning
• Constant dust in barracks led to many Japanese having asthma

FAMILY TIES

• My great grandpa Hideo Baba was one of many Japanese Americans held in camp
• Born November 18, 1920 in Irvington, California
• Graduated from Washington high school 1939
• 1942 taken to tanforan, California race track where he lived in the stables with family
• Then taken to Manzanar with family where he worked in the mess hall

AFTER THE WAR

• Manzanar camp lasted from 1942-1945
• In 1945 United States allowed Japanese to move out of camp in inland areas
• Hideo then moved to Cleveland, Ohio where he worked in a steel mill
• After the war it is ironic that the volunteer Japanese Nisei were the most decorated army unit in WW2

HOW THIS AFFECTED MY FAMILY

• Hideo affected my family because of his hard work
• He worked in the camp and also farmed at his home
• He birthed a son who is my grandpa and also is a hard worker
• My family is now thankful that we didnt have to go through this

WORKS CITED

• http://www.nps.gov/manz/historyculture/japanese-americans-at-manzanar.htm
• http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/manz/hrst.htm