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Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor December 7, 1941, led the United States into World War II and radically changed the lives of 120,000 men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry living in the United States.

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Many of the first ones there were actually volunteers who helped bulid the camp and the rest were transported by bus, train, cars, and trucks

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Ten war relocation centers were built in remote deserts, plains, and swamps. The 500-acre housing section was surrounded by barbed wire and eight guard towers with searchlights and patrolled by military police.

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Following the attacks on pearl harbor the U.S. Govt. felt as if national security was in danger

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Japanese descendants were sent to this one internment camp by the U.S. government.  About two-thirds of all Japanese Americans interned at Manzanar were American citizens by birth

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The Manzanar camp was located in  in the Owens Valley of California between the Sierra Nevada on the west and the Inyo mountains on the east

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It was built in 1942 and closed on November 21, 1945. Therefore, this internment camp was open for three years.

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There were 54 barracks into 36 blocks, 200 to 400 people were living per block. In a 20 by 25 room, 8 people were put together and inside each room was a stove, blankets, cots, and a couple of mattresses filled with straw. Men and woman shared toilets, and showers. Children still went to school and adults still had jobs.