School children, Manzanar Relocation Center, California Digital History ID 4156

School children, Manzanar Relocation Center, California

Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: photograph
Museum Number: LC-DIG-ppprs-00354
Annotation: Manzanar opened June 1, 1942, closed November 21, 1945, and detained 10,046 prisoners at its peak. However, a total of 120,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans were held in relocation camps throughout the country during a span of four years.
Year: 1943

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