Thursday, November 5, 2009

Manzanar NHS

Manzanar National Historical Site is in the middle of nowhere in California. It represents one of the darkest moments of US history in the 20th century. When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and World War II started in the Pacific, the US President decided to put all Japanese American in concentration camps in very isolated areas. Japanese Americans were deprived of their liberty for as long as the war continued. They had to leave all their lives behind and when the war was over, they were forbidden to come back to the 3 Pacific coast states. They had to start from scratch.

Manzanar NHS is one of the only places which were kind of preserved.



These are the police posts at the entrance:



And the lunch hall:



These are the remaining of a Japanese garden the "inmates" created.



And the following are photos of the cemetery:





4 comments:

Rocío Cantó said...

Hola! Ya veo que vas muy bien por aquellas tierras :) Tengo un profesor que estuvo en el MIT así que me tienes que pasar la camiseta de la foto :P 1beso!

Rocío Cantó said...

Hola! Ya veo que vas muy bien por aquellas tierras :) Tengo un profesor del MIT así que me tienes que pasar tu camiseta. Nos vemos pronto! Cuidate.

Alvaro said...

Jeje, pero esta camiseta tiene truco... por detras pone:
- Because not everyone can go to Caltech
!
No creo q le hiciese mucha gracia a tu profesor ;)

Nos vemos! Un abrazo

Rocío said...

Jijijijijijijiji, si ya sabía lo que pone... por eso te la he pedido ;)