The Beginning of a New Life in the Camps and its Conditions
Assembly Centers (Subsection)
Due to the haste of the program, several of the detention centers were simply not ready for wide scale use. Forcing the WCCA to place the first displaced citizens in already established buildsings such as fairgrounds and horse stables. An experience that revered actor George Takei (Who acted as one of the first actors in Star Trek) actually lived through. By observing his 2019 interview with Seth Myers, he describes the experience in one of the reception centers as "We were herded over with other Japanese to the stable area and assigned a horse stall for us to sleep in. From a two-bedroom home, front yard, backyard, on Garnet Street in LA, to a horse stall. For my parents, it was a degrading, humiliating, painful experience" "but, for me, I thought it was fun to sleep where the horsies sleep." A sentiment shared by many other Japanese Americans as they were suddenly whisked away from their lives and brought forth into a new one.
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(1942)Japanese-American camp, war emergency relocation, Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, Calif. United States Oregon, 1942. or 1943. [Photograph]Retrieved from the Library of Congress,
https://www.loc.gov/item/2017878794/. |
Life in the Internment Camps proved difficult for Japanese Americans. Having to endure a wide variety of challenges and dangers. Because of the hastily made houses serving to function more as baracks, they were poorly built with lack of structural support and little breathing room. Leaving several crammed toe to toe wth barely any room to breathe. With the majority of their day being spent in these baracks, most of their time was spent in communal bathrooms, laundry rooms, or in the dining halls.