Manzanar Relocation Camp Cemetery Monument
by Gary Whitton
Title
Manzanar Relocation Camp Cemetery Monument
Artist
Gary Whitton
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photography
Description
The cemetery at the Manzanar Internment Camp in California. Manzanar was one of 10 concentration camps created by the United States government, to incarcerate more than 120,000 United States citizens of Japanese ancestry during World War II. The Japanese Americans were held from March 1942 to November 1945. Manzanar is located in the Owens Valley on the eastern side of of the Sierra Nevada Mountains close to Death Valley and the Nevada border. The name Manzanar means apple orchard in Spanish, which comes from the name of the town once located there, as well as the area's previous farming history.
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December 4th, 2013
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