Manzanar: Their Footsteps Remain – 40 Years of Photography

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A poignant & enlightening Photo Book & Exhibit of the remnants of Manzanar, the World War II Japanese concentration camp in California - Manzanar: Their Footsteps Remain – 40 Years of PhotographyIt was the winter of 1977, after a ski trip to Mammoth Mountain, when I first pulled off Highway 395 in the Owens Valley in California to explore an unidentified patch of land that I had been passing by for years. I didn’t know what it was at first, but soon came to learn that it was called the "Manzanar War Relocation Center", a concentration camp that once housed over 10,000 peo ...

Read More ple of Japanese heritage during World War II, and most of them were American citizens! Military Police Sentry Post (ca. 1977) In total, there were ten Japanese concentration camps spread out over the western U.S. where nearly 120,000 Japanese-American citizens and immigrants were incarcerated during the war. These families were fo

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