I came across an old copy of Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and James Houston (1973). It is Jeanne's story about her 3+ year internment as a child in Manzanar Camp in California, due to the Japanese Internment in the U.S. of over 100,000 Japanese after the attack at Pearl Harbor.
It is well written, a "one sitting read" if you have a couple of hours, and well worth the time to get a first-hand account of what it was like for a family to be sent to a large interment camp (Manzanar had 10,000 people) with little more of personal possessions than could be put into a suitcase.
My college friend's parents were in an interment camp. I wish I knew then what I know now as an adult, so that I could possibly have broached the topic with them.
Farewell to Manzanar
It is well written, a "one sitting read" if you have a couple of hours, and well worth the time to get a first-hand account of what it was like for a family to be sent to a large interment camp (Manzanar had 10,000 people) with little more of personal possessions than could be put into a suitcase.
My college friend's parents were in an interment camp. I wish I knew then what I know now as an adult, so that I could possibly have broached the topic with them.
