Heart Mountain Chronicles
| Autor: | Murphy, Bernard Murphy, James |
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| EAN: | 9781733489720 |
| Sachgruppe: | Geschichte |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 678 |
| Produktart: | Kartoniert / Broschiert |
| Herausgeber: | Tafoya, Renee |
| Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 01.05.2024 |
| Untertitel: | The History of a Japanese Relocation Center |
| Schlagworte: | History - U.S. |
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"This work records the history of the Heart Mountain Relocation Center beginning on December 7, 1941, with the bombing of Pearl Harbor, to April 22, 1953, when the Heart Mountain Post Office closed because nobody lived there anymore. Heart Mountain Relocation Center was of one of the ten prison camps built by the Government in the summer of 1942 to incarcerate persons of Japanese ancestry living along the West Coast after Pearl Harbor. At its peak, the population at Heart Mountain was 10,767. This is the story of the building of a temporary city, its people, and all the accompanying community services that had to be created from scratch in a short time with few resources. Included are short personal anecdotes of some of the people who were interned there"--
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