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episode summary

Shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the U.S. military and the FBI arrested more than 110,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry. Taken to desert camps and confined for months or years, many of these Americans lost their homes and businesses. We visit the largest of these camps, now a National Park Service site — and meet those keeping memory alive.

sites visited (in order of appearance on-screen)

  • Manzanar National Historic Site, Independence, CA

  • Home of Mary Nomura, Los Angeles, CA

  • Japanese American National Museum, Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, CA

  • Home of Bruce Embrey, Los Angeles, CA