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Internment camp of Japanese American

Manami Shirahisa Senior Division Website

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Primary source 1 Dresser, Jordan. "Amache internment camp survivors." . N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Feb 2012. http://www.denverpost.com/skiing/ci_9781651

Annotation: Kumiko Hasegawa, 73 and her brother Hisao Homma, 72 and Kunio Homma, 68 are survivor of the internment camp. In 1940s they were held at Internment camp at Amache as children. Amache was one of the 10 camps build by the War location authority to increase Japanese American. Amache at peak held more than 7,500 Japanese and was 10th largest one. This resource helped me with my project because these survivors tell what they went through and how they feel now after looking back.

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Secondary source 1 Satsuki, I.. "Children of the Camps." www.pbs.org. PBS, 2010. Web. 8 Feb 2012. <http://www.pbs.org/childofcamp/history/index.html>

Annotation: This website was important resource in my project because this resource described in detail how people started evacuated and mental and physical impact to Japanese American.

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Primary source 2 "Granada Japanese Internment Camp." Colorado.gov: The Official State Web Portal. Web. 08 Feb. 2012. <http://www.colorado.gov/dpa/doit/archives/wwcod/granada4.htm>.

Annotation: Colorado Governor Ralph Carr was a US governor who favored declaring war against Japanese after Pearl Harbor but did not believe that Japanese-American should be put into a concentration camp. This website helped me with my project because this made me realize that there were people who were against the camp.

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Secondary source 2 Grapes, Bryan. Japanese American Internment Camps. History first hand, 2001.

Annotation: Japanese-American Issei or first generation had immigrated for better lives. Just when Nisei or second generation born Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. This book helped because it explains how people moved it and their reaction to the event.

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Primary source 3 "Japanese Internment Camps - Tule Lake, CA." Page Title. Web. 08 Feb. 2012. <http://www2.volstate.edu/geades/FinalDocs/Depression-WWII/JapaneseAmericanCamps.htm>.

Annotation: All of the pictures were taken in Tule Lake, California. This helped me with the project because this website gave me an idea of how people spent time in the camp. It wasnt as strict as concentration camp in Auschwitz where people had to work and was killed when they dont obey (They had rules but it wasnt as strict).

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"Japanese-American Internment [ushistory.org]." Ushistory.org. Web. 09 Feb. 2012. <http://www.ushistory.org/us/51e.asp>.

Annotation: Another great website that helped me with my project which talked about how AntiJapanese Paranoia increased and over 127,000 people were imprisoned for being Japanese ancestry. It also explains what happened to the people after they were released.

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Primary source 4 Houston, Jeanne Wakatsuki., and James D. Houston. Farewell to Manzanar; a True Story of Japanese American Experience during and after the World War II Internment. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.

Annotation: Author of this book, Jeanne Wakatsuki is a survivor of the internment camp. This book helped me because even though she was a little girl she remembers every little detail of what happened after the Pearl Harbor. She also describe what happened in the camp and how the camp impacted her family.

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Secondary Source 4 Kitano, Harry H. L. Japanese Americans; the Evolution of a Subculture. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1969. Print Annotation: This book helped me through this project because this book explains how JapaneseAmerican moved to United States and how Nisei of them was affected by attack of Pearl Harbor and the life in Internment camp.

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Primary Source 5 Taxin, Amy. "Japanese American urged to share internment story." . Yahoo, 2012. Web. 26 Feb 2012. Annotation: This website helped me with the project because this website shares story of internment camp survivor, Bill Shishima.

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Secondary Source 5 Hillstrom, Laurie. Defining Moments The attack on Pearl Harbor. Omnigraphics, 1965. 237.

Annotation: This book helped me understand how the attack of Pearl Harbor started and how other countries reacted to it.

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Primary Source 6 Uchida, Take. An Issei Internee's Experience. University of Washington Press, 1986. Annotation: This book helped me with my project because this books author share her experience in the internment camp. Take Uchida and her husband, Setsuzo were Issei (first generation) who were interned for about 5 years.

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Secondary source 6 Norimitsu, Onishi. "Japan Fires General Who said a U.S. "Trap" Led to the Pearl Harbor Attack." . New York Times, 2008. Web. 26 Feb 2012. Annotation: This website helped me with the project because this website has interesting facts from Japanese military who think that it was Trap that Japan attacked Pearl Harbor.