American Japanese Forced to Evacuate Homes
In the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, tens of thousands of American citizens of Japanese descent were rounded up, arrested, and evacuated to internment camps throughout the western states during World War II. Here a Japanese American woman and her sleeping baby await evacuation from their home on Bainbridge Island, Washington. On March 30, 1942, the approximately 270 Bainbridge islanders of Japanese descent boarded a ferry to Seattle enroute to their ultimate destination—a four-year incarceration at Manzanar Relocation Center near California’s Sierra Mountains.
In the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, tens of thousands of American citizens of Japanese descent were rounded up, arrested, and evacuated to internment camps throughout the western states during World War II. Here a Japanese American woman and her sleeping baby await evacuation from their home on Bainbridge Island, Washington. On March 30, 1942, the approximately 270 Bainbridge islanders of Japanese descent boarded a ferry to Seattle enroute to their ultimate destination—a four-year incarceration at Manzanar Relocation Center near California’s Sierra Mountains.