Essay On Japanese Internment Camps

Between 1942 and 1945, Japanese Americans were being forced to leave their homes and businesses and move to internment camps run by the U.S. Government. This was happning because the president announced Executive Order 9066 in February 1942, he authorized the evacuation and Japanese-American child who will go with his parents to Owens Valley. Within months, many places in California,Washington and Oregon had been stated as military areas. This was the start of moving thousands of Japanese Americans. Japanese Americans had to get identification numbers. Bringing only what they could carry, they were told to report to assembly centers. These places became housing for thousands of men, women and children. There was no privacy for the Japanese.These camps were in the middle of nowhere; the camps were like a prison, they had barbed wire borders with guards in watchtowers. Many Japanese Americans, not always family members, had to share small living spaces. Adults did what they could to make living quarters more comfortable. Schools were made for the educational needs of
Few POW camps were new. In most frequently existing warehouses, company employee dorms, or school buildings were fixed and used as POW camp buildings. Typically, they were wooden buildings in an area surrounded by wooden walls with barbed wire. POW rooms usually had rows of bunk beds with either woven straw mats or straw mattresses on the wooden bunks. Blankets were given to the prisoners, however, many POWs told that the severe winter cold made them weak(Umeda, Sayuri. WWII POW and Forced Labor Compensation Cases).The work schedule was eight hours a day with only one day off in a week, but POWs were often forced to work longer. In all of the places where POWs were assigned, their work consisted mostly of simple physical labour. Only a few POWs were allowed to do technical