Originally from https://www.buzzfeed.com/jenruggirello/japanese-americans-visited-an-incarceration-camp-where-some?utm_term=4ldqpia
“It was a lot more emotional for me than I thought it would be.”
In 1942, the US government detained more than 110,000 Japanese-Americans in incarceration camps. To learn more about it, a few younger Japanese-Americans decided to visit Manzanar, a former internment camp in California, to gain a deeper understanding of their ancestors' past.
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Mananzar was one out of ten incarceration camps across the United States. At its peak, it held over 10,000 detainees.
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Before heading to Manzanar, most people had little to no knowledge of what their families had experienced.
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And they hoped to gain a better grasp on what life was like during this time.
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