• Primary source documents and analyses/responses for each on Japanese-American internment during WWII.

     

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Published: 10.12.2005.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
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  • Essays 'Primary source documents and analyses/responses for each on Japanese-American in', 1.
  • Essays 'Primary source documents and analyses/responses for each on Japanese-American in', 2.
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"Farewell to Manzanar" Summary
Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston.
"Farewell to Manzanar" is the memoirs of Jeanne Watkatsuki Houston, a 2nd generation Japanese-American who was seven years old when she, along with her nine brothers and sisters and her parents, was relocated from the California coast to the Manzanar internment camp. For the next three and a half years, Jeanne watched as the family she loved was torn apart by the psychological confusion and Spartan living arrangements bestowed upon them by the United States government.
Before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Jeanne's father Ko is a worki…

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