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

Taken to a Japanese internment camp at Sumatra, she and fellow internee Norah Chambers set up a vocal orchestra.

From BBC • Feb. 3, 2024

In the aftermath of Japan’s 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, they were imprisoned in an incarceration camp — not an internment camp.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 16, 2023

In wartime, the Raymonds settled in New Hope, Penn., and rescued the Nakashima family from the Minidoka internment camp in rural Idaho.

From New York Times • Mar. 9, 2023

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