Sunday, September 26, 2010

Minidoka Relocation Camp

This is what is left of the "V Garden" The Garden was planted just behind the Declaration of  Honor, in which residents pledged their allegiance to the US

V Garden


Waiting area for guests awaiting visits with the internees

Guard House and Waiting Room

Not much lives in this environment
About 10,000 people of Japanese descent were relocated to this Camp in southern Idaho after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Over 100,000 Japanese Americans were held in camps and Army bases.... there is very little left here other than parts of the Guard House, Visitor Waiting Room, and a portion of the V Garden.

See the video in the post below ....Some of the original internees, along with some children and descendants  formed The Minidoka Swing Band as a tribute to those who lived in the Relocation Camps.

4 comments:

  1. It was one thing to read about it in that book we read "Hotel at the Corner of Bitter & Sweet", but to see an actual camp makes it so much more disturbingly real.

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  2. I'm so glad you guys read this, so you can share it...
    and the rocky landscape that provides the rock that is used in the surviving buildings? It's scary just driving through it.

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  3. Those poor people...I'll bet the area is still heavy with the emotion that was experienced there.

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