internment

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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

Repatriated to Amsterdam, Elfriede - who was known as Fritzi - married Otto Frank, the father of Anne Frank, who had also managed to survive internment by the Nazis.

From BBC • Jan. 4, 2026

The overt racism and grotesque unfairness of Japanese-American internment eventually provoked some degree of societal reckoning, if only years later.

From Salon • Jul. 6, 2025

Today, under the law of war, civilians are supposed to have protections, including against citizenship- or identity-based detentions or internment, as well as against forced repatriation.

From Slate • Mar. 20, 2025

Even among my brothers and sisters, we seldom discussed the internment.

From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston