internment camp

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Ms. Gage deals with it by visiting the remnants of a Japanese internment camp at Manzanar, Calif., and the research facility in Los Alamos, N.M., where U.S. government scientists built the atomic bomb.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026

During the war, she and her family had been incarcerated in an internment camp in Wyoming; after, her parents returned to California, and she went to New York.

From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2024

“His belief was that they were put in the internment camp because the United States was a scared country,” said his daughter Laura Rutizer.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 10, 2023

Mr Maskey, 70, had been interned at Long Kesh internment camp - later known as the Maze Prison - in December 1972.

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2022

They’d been married at the Manzanar internment camp in a tar paper Buddhist chapel.

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson