INDEPENDENCE, CA - DECEMBER 09: A replica of internment camp barracks stands at Manzanar National Historic Site on December 9, 2015 near Independence, California. Recent presidential campaign rhetoric against Muslims in the wake of terror attacks has drawn comparisons to World War II era incarceration of Japanese Americans. Manzanar War Relocation Center was one of ten internment camps where Japanese American citizens and resident Japanese aliens were incarcerated from 1942 to 1945 during World War II. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
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There are many misconceptions about Japanese internment during WWII. In order to evade such misconceptions, students will read an interview between members of the Veteran’s History Project at the LOC and someone who experienced the internment, Warren Michio Tsuneishi. While his insight gives students a glimpse into the hardships of internment, he also provides vivid details of their time spent there showing not only what they left behind, but what they had and what they could do. This interview, being a primary source of a witness’ account, eliminates the false interpretations of internment by those who compare it to the concentration camps used by Nazi Germany during the Holocaust.

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