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Farewell to Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During and After the World War II Internment
by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, James D. Houston
Farewell to Manzanar; a powerful memoir from Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and her husband.
After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941 suddenly all Japanese descendants became enemies. There were Japanese people who’d never known anything besides their life in America yet because of their roots they were distrusted.
Internment camps were quickly set up around California and all Japanese were rounded up, stuffed in busses with minimal belongings and even less notice and sent to live in a camp with less than acceptable conditions. Wakatsuki Houston was 7 years old when this happened, she vividly recalls the day they were removed from their home and sent to the internment camp called Manzanar, where her life as she’d known it was over.
When WWII is over, the ten thousand+ Japanese Americans are simply taken on buses again and dropped out in the city. With no resources to readjust to society and with their homes and business gone many succumbed to depression and later suicide.
The entire memoir is shocking but what left me numb was that I had never learned of this in history class. It had simply been omitted from the curriculum. I hope this review will convince you to go pick up this copy and immerse yourself in this crucial event in history.
After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941 suddenly all Japanese descendants became enemies. There were Japanese people who’d never known anything besides their life in America yet because of their roots they were distrusted.
Internment camps were quickly set up around California and all Japanese were rounded up, stuffed in busses with minimal belongings and even less notice and sent to live in a camp with less than acceptable conditions. Wakatsuki Houston was 7 years old when this happened, she vividly recalls the day they were removed from their home and sent to the internment camp called Manzanar, where her life as she’d known it was over.
When WWII is over, the ten thousand+ Japanese Americans are simply taken on buses again and dropped out in the city. With no resources to readjust to society and with their homes and business gone many succumbed to depression and later suicide.
The entire memoir is shocking but what left me numb was that I had never learned of this in history class. It had simply been omitted from the curriculum. I hope this review will convince you to go pick up this copy and immerse yourself in this crucial event in history.