Disturbing Photographs from Inside the Japanese Internment Camps

Bunk space at Manzanar. Ansel Adams: Library of Congress

Photographs, letters and personal belongings are seen inside a home in the Manzanar internment camp, one of ten that incarcerated Japanese people along America’s West Coast during the Second World War. Daily Mail

Camp detainee Benji Iguchi works the fields on a tractor, 1943. Daily Mail

Farming at Manzanar. Ansel Adams: Library of Congress

Mori Nakajima works at a poultry farm. Daily Mail

An internee holds cabbage. Buyenlarge: Getty Images

Ryie Yoshizawa, instructor, standing in front of a class of women students, one woman in foreground with dressmaker’s dummy. 1943. Ansel Adams: Library of Congress

Manzanar internee Yonehisa Yamagami. 1943. Ansel Adams: Library of Congress

Florence Yamaguchi (left) and Kinu Hirashima, both from Los Angeles, stand under an apple tree at the War Relocation Authority center in Manzanar in June 1942. AP Photos

Nurse Aiko Hamaguchi shows a newborn baby to her mother at the Manzanar Relocation Center. Library of Congress

Grandfather of Japanese ancestry teaching his little grandson to walk. 1942. Dorothea Lange: National Archives

Yaeko Nakamura and her two children, Joyce Yuki (right) and Louise Tami (left), standing on the step at the entrance of a dwelling. 1943. Ansel Adams: Library of Congress

Editor Roy Takeno reading a copy of the Manzanar Free Press in front of the newspaper office at Manzanar. 1943. Ansel Adams: Library of Congress

Internees play baseball. Library of Congress

Internees play volleyball. Circa 1943. Buyenlarge: Getty Images

Tetsuko Murajami, a Manzanar internee. Flickr: Ping News

A Red Cross worker administers aid at in Tule Lake. Library of Congress

Baton practice at Manzanar. 1943. Ansel Adams: National Archives

A young Japanese man looks out toward the California desert from the internment camp in Tule Lake. Getty Images

A Japanese monument in a cemetery inside the Manzanar War Relocation Center with Mt. Williamson visible in the background. Daily Mail