"Concentration Camp: U.S. Style"
Editorial
By: Ted Nakashima
Date: June 15, 1942
Source: Nakashima, Ted. "Concentration Camp: U.S. Style." The New Republic 106, no. 24, June 15, 1942, 822–823.
About the Author: Ted Nakashima's life mirrored that of many of the nearly 120,000 people of Japanese descent interned during World War II (1939–1945). While not much is known about Nakashima's life after his internment, his opinion piece for The New Republic in 1942 provided a clear portrait of his family's history. As a U.S. citizen born and raised in Seattle, Washington, Nakashima worked as an architectural draftsman prior to the war. The U.S. military relocated his family to "Camp Harmony," a temporary assembly center in Puyallup, Washington. Following a four-month stay in this temporary center, Nakashima and the other 7,200 residents of the camp were moved to a relocation center in Minidoka,...
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