Manzanar

OCTOBER 2023

“Manzanar is the site of one of ten American concentration camps, where more than 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II from March 1942 to November 1945. Although it had over 10,000 inmates at its peak, it was one of the smaller internment camps. It is located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains in California's Owens Valley, between the towns of Lone Pine to the south and Independence to the north, approximately 230 miles (370 km) north of Los Angeles. Manzanar means "apple orchard" in Spanish. The Manzanar National Historic Site, which preserves and interprets the legacy of Japanese American incarceration in the United States, was identified by the United States National Park Service as the best-preserved of the ten former camp sites.”

Source quoted -Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manzanar

Links for more info:

Manzanar National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)

Manzanar National Historic Site - National Park Foundation

Seventy Years After Manzanar, the Stories of Incarceration Live On