Manzanar
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Photo by Department of the Interior. War Relocation Authority. 2/16/1944-6/30/1946 via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Photo by Department of the Interior. War Relocation Authority. 2/16/1944-6/30/1946 via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Photo by Department of the Interior. War Relocation Authority. 2/16/1944-6/30/1946 via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)
Background
Manzanar is the site of one of ten American concentration camps, where more than 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II, from March 1942 to November 1945. Although it had over 10,000 inmates at its peak, Manzanar was one of the smaller internment camps. It is located in California's Owens Valley, on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada mountains, between the towns of Lone Pine to the south and Independence to the north, approximately 230 miles (370 km) north of Los Angeles. Manzanar means "apple orchard" in Spanish. The Manzanar National Historic Site, which preserves and interprets the legacy of Japanese American incarceration in the United States, was identified by the United States National Park Service as the best-preserved of the ten former camp sites.
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Capacity
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Current population
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Occupancy
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Year opened
1972
Operational
Facility profile
Operator
National Park Service
Population held
Mixed/unknown
Opened
1972
Region
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Security level
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Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
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Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
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Data completeness
24%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
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