1. Japanese-American
Internment Camps

2. •After the bombing of Pearl
Harbor, the US questioned
The loyalty of Japanese-
Americans.
•President agreed to send
them to “relocation” camps.

3. • The War Relocation
Authority was created
to administer the
assembly centers,
relocation centers, and
internment camps, and
relocation of Japanese-
Americans began in
April 1942.

4. • Japanese-Americans
were forced to sell
their homes and
businesses at a great
loss.

5. Where were the camps?

6. The Building of the camps……..

7. A Typical layout of a camp….

9. • The internees were arranged into the "block",
consisting of about 12 to 14 barracks, a mess hall,
baths, showers, toilets, a laundry and a recreation
hall. Each barrack was about 20 by 16 to 20 by 25
feet. Each room housed at least one family, even if a
family was very large. Even at the end of 1942, in 928
cases, two families shared a 20 by 25 foot room.4
The barracks often were built poorly and constructed
of green wood which warped. The barracks were built
of planks nailed to studs and covered with tar paper

10. • The camps in the West
were very dusty.

11. Arrival at the camps……

12. Perimeter Warning Sign…..

13. • In fact, no really
appetizing meals could
be produced regularly
under a requirement
that feeding the
evacuees could not cost
more than rations for
the Army, which were
set at 30 cents per
person per day. Actual
costs per evacuee were
approximately 45 cents
per person per day;
sometimes they fell as
low as 31 cents.12

14. Dry Goods Canteen

15. • This replica of a Tule
Lake Internment
Camp watchtower.
Twenty eight of these
towers surrounded the
11x4 square mile
camp

16. Barbed Wire Fences…..

18. A Kindergarten class….

19. A High School……..

20. Waiting in line for a meal….

21. Meal time

22. Working…..