Manzanar | Dennis Tojo Baumbauer

More than 66,000 Japanese American children and young adults were forcibly evicted from their homes, including dozens of children removed from orphanages. The government felt they might be a threat to national security. The Children’s Village was created at Manzanar to care for these orphans.

“ I remember driving up to the gates and seeing the guard tower and the barbed wire fence, and this -- this blew my mind

so to speak, to think that we were going to be behind those wires, and I just figured that’s what was going to happen to us.”

— Dennis Tojo Baumbauer