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Shortly after arriving by bus from their home in Berkeley, Andrew Toyoaki Nozaka, 8, and his mother, Toyo Ichiki Nozaka, 42, and sister, Alice, 10, ask for help locating their living quarters near the grandstands of the Tanforan Assembly Center. -
Andrew Toyoaki Nozaka, 79, was interned at the Tanforan Assembly Center in San Bruno, California and then at the Topaz Internment Camp near Delta, Utah. "My father believed in America, in democracy, in capitalism, here were all these things, true blue, but he couldn't become a citizen, irony upon irony" Nozaka said. -
George Hirano, 18, recently drafted by the US Army, poses with his mother, Hisa, 58, and his father, Yasbei, 66,, in the Poston Internment Camp 2 near Parker, Arizona in 1944. Hisa Hirano holds a photograph of her oldest son, Shigaru, a member of the US Army 442nd Infantry Regiment. -
George Hirano, 87 was born in Watsonville, Calif. to immigrant farmers that grew strawberries and dry beans on a small five-acre farm prior to WWII. The family of six was first interned for three months at the Salinas Assembly Center, then they were transfered to Poston Internment Camp 2 in Arizona for the duration of the war. -
Ibuki Hibi, 5, holds her doll and waits with her mother, Hisako Hibi, 35, as they stand with the family's luggage in downtown Hayward in 1942. The Hibi family was being taken to the Tanforan Assembly Center. When they arrived at Tanforan they lived in a horse stall. Ibuki said, " We saw big piles of hay in the room and thought it is for the horse to eat, but was told it was to stuff a mattress for sleeping." Photographed by Dorothea Lange in Hayward, Calif. 5/ 8/ 42 -
Ibuki Hibi Lee, 75, stands on the same location on "C" Street in Hayward, Calif. where her family waited for a bus to take them to the Tanforan Assembly Center 70 years ago. Ibuki said, " you have to think of camp from the view of injustice, and it was really an injustice to Japanese Americans and those that were citizens. It had to do a lot with economics, racism and politics." -
The Ouchida and Ogata children stand in front of the Akiyama grocery store on Florin Road two days prior to their evacuation to the Fresno Assembly Center. They were then sent to the Jerome Internment Camp in Arkansas. Harold Ouchida their father, was a second generation Japanese-America who ran a successful produce shipping company.-- Photographed by Dorothea Lange, Florin, California. 5/ 11/ 42 -
Lucille Yokota Ouchida, 80, Arlene Ogata Keunji, 79, Lester Ouchida, 75, and Earl Ouchida, 78, stand on Florin Road where the Akiyama grocery store stood 70 years ago. The Ouchida's father operated Northern California Farms which had 20 trucks and shipped the strawberries and grapes from the local Japanese farmers to the retail stores. Their father lost his business when the family was shipped to the Gila Internment camp in the Arizona desert. -
Sansei, a third generation Japanese-American, Joan Yamasaki Matsuoka, 5, left, recites the Pledge of Allegiance the Raphael Weill School in San Francisco, California before being sent to the Topaz Internment Camp in Utah in April, 1942. Dorothea Lange -
Joan Matsuoka, 75, stands on the playground of Rosa Parks Elementary School, formerly known as the Raphael Weill School, where she was photographed in 1942 by Dorothea Lange. Matsuoka was sent to the Tanforan Assembly Center and then later transferred to the Topaz Internment Camp near Delta, Utah. -
Gladys Matsumoto, 16, center, Shizuko Sakihara, 16, left, and Judy Nakao, 17, walk home from school at the Manzanar Internment Camp. Matsumoto was born in Elk Grove, Calif. where her family farmed Her father, Shigeruoka also had a grocery store, the Davis Highway Market in West Sacramento run by his two older sons. -
Gladys Katsuki, 85, was a freshman at Elk Grove High School in California when Pearl Harbor was bombed in 1941. Her family was interned at the Fresno Assembly Center, the Manzanar Internment Camp and finally the Amache Internment Camp in Colorado. -
Mitsuo "Mits" Mori, 9, receives a haircut at the Tule Lake Internment Camp barbershop. Mori's family wanted to repatriate to Japan, but later decided to stay in the United States when his mother became pregnant. Carl Mydans/ Time & Life Pictures/ Getty Images -
Sansei, third generation Japanese America, Mitsuo "Mits" Mori arrived at the Poston Internment Camp in 1943 and was later transferred to the Tule Lake Internment Camp. Mori's father, Harry Megumi Mori, owned the thriving Ohio Cleaners on 3rd Street in San Francisco. -
Masatoshi Tachibana, 8, right, looking at camera, stands in front of the Catholic church at the Manzanar Internment Camp with two Japanese America nuns, Sisters Susanna and Bernadette from Maryknoll Catholic Center in Los Angeles. The group was photographed by Ansel Adams and appeared in Adams' book "Born Free and Equal." -
Masatoshi Mason Tachibana, 77, was seven years-old when his family was sent to the Manzanar Internment Camp in 1942. One of six children of Ichijiro and Iku Tachibana, Tachibana said, "I was only seven when I went in, but I knew something was wrong."
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