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Manzanar Relocation Camp
More than 110,000 ethnic Japanese living in the United States were relocated to ten different detention centers during World War II. One of these, Manzanar War Relocation Center, was located in California's Owens Valley. Photographer Ansel Adams documented life in that camp and wrote: "The purpose of my work was to show how these people, suffering under a great injustice, and loss of property, businesses and professions, had overcome the sense of defeat and dispair [sic] by building for themselves a vital community in an arid (but magnificent) environment." |