"Should they feel bad for something that happened 70 years ago? No. But they should remember it." This really hit me hard considering everything that is going on right now. How they handled things and stood up for themselves without dishonoring themselves is amazing... I loved every bit of this documentary. It brought me to tears but gave me hope. I can't imagine what it would have been like... I just can't. My heart hurts thinking about it. Bless them. God bless those who even after being put in the camp still fought for their country. They are truly amazing.
P.S a ginormous shout out to PBS. You have been in my life since I can remember life I hope you never go away. You’ve given me everything I’ve ever needed.🎉🎉🎉🎉
My grandma and her family was sent to Amache. My grandfather and his family was sent to Topaz. They never talked about it growing up, even avoiding or ignoring any question about the war from my Sis and I, and died without ever talking about it. Never forget this. Never justify this.
I’m so sorry, Talking about it must have been haunting. This country won’t admit what was wrongly done. Money helps but dignity has no price. It’s like history repeating itself with this current administration, People are treating Asian people like they personally started this pandemic
@@btomimatsucunardmany just tried to erase it from their memory but the side effects were that many Japanese Americans experienced Alzheimer’s in their latter years of life. It’s something not really talked about. If you follow closely you will see it. An Asian/Japanese man or woman wondering around not knowing who they are or where they live.
I would love to learn about this video but unfortunately, it does not have captions. I am deaf. Even auto-generated subtitles would suffice. Thank you.
There are various books about this and other internment camps. Brief study of these camps showed that they were basically similar in the what and how things were like. I've visited Manzanar and compared with various stories about the other camps. The many stories from these camps are repeats from the other camps. The basic stories are indistinguishable between camps.
It’s happened before, and it can happen again… if we let it… When they come for your neighbors, Will YOU speak up? I wonder, when they come for you, will anybody be left to stand up for you? Or will it be too late?
My widowed mother in the 30's with 5 children from age 16 thru 9 had major surgery 2 weeks prior to notice to be relocated in one week and allowed to take only what we could carry. The FBI agents came into our hotel and confiscated all our rifles including our BB guns and my father's ceremonial sword he used to teach men's dances, which were never returned. During the second year of internment, we were informed that some homeless people moved into our hotel and burned the hotel down to the ground. The U.S. government paid us four hundred dollars ($400). We moved to Denver, CO. because we had no home to go back to. My oldest brother tried to enlist into the Army when he reached 17 years old, but was declare 4F
Greed, prejudice, and lack of righteous politicians caused this injustice by the United States government. Only Colorado Governor Ralph L. Carr spoke up against this travesty of justice. -- Minoru "Min" Tonai, President Amache Historical Society
@@MrChow-sw5ub It was obviously unjust and abusive - how does pointing this out equal hating America? The US itself recognized this and Reagan signed the Civil Civil Liberties Act in 1988 officially apologizing and issuing reparations to every surviving victim who was incarcerated in those Japanese internment camps. America has also since imposed sanctions on foreign nations who put their countrymen in internment/concentration camps.
"sabotage the produce".... 🐛 It's like an annoying earworm👂🏻, because actually the Japanese people's land, crops and produce was being sabotaged by the government. Then they had to start all over in the internment camp tilling the earth, planting and fruit trees take time to produce, so the fast crops were controlled, and meanwhile their orchards and land back home were being harvested by the real strange(ers).
Note: the Japanese, whether American citizens or not, living in Hawaii--where Pearl Harbor is--were not relocated, jailed or segregated. But Hawaii at the time was not predominantly white yet.
Hawaii was not even part of the United States back in WW2. Only 48 states. And it’s not technically true about Japanese Hawaiians not jailed. Many were. If the the US government found any slightest connection to Japan like having swords or Japan flag then they would get jailed until cleared. Not right. There was a small camp too in Hawaii. Most don’t know about it. It is more ironic though that the real possible threat was more so Hawaii and yet the US government didn’t round up like they did the west coast where 2/3 were US citizens. It was almost like a land and property grab. If anybody is owed reparations by California it’s Japanese Americans. Notice who covers this up. It’s Democrats.
I must say after having watched the whole doco the Japanese Americans served their detention with honour. and generally good humour. Most Japanese from reports showed great character. I like the Japanese people, I just wish that the Japanese govt would own up to the wrongs of WW2, especially some of the horrible atrocities,the way they treated prisoners etc and allow the education system in Japan to tell the facts of the war.
Idiot, they were still on talk. Do you think america would just let them attack them and lose almost all their assets in hawaii that plays a vital role in defending their territories? Use you common sense!
@Master Blackthorne I just recently learned that reagan bought the Polish Solidarity movement (without congressional approval) over two million dollars in office supplies to destabilize their government through propaganda, whilst here in his own country cutting everything from unemployment benefits, General Assistance, an increase in Social Security benefits, and school lunches!
People that say ,"well Americans in other countries where put in camps" is not what should be used to justify these actions. This country constantly harps on about humanity, equality and fairness yet you seldom see any of those things involved in what happens. All America does is talk about fairness, talk and talk and talk. Then later on you find out about how inhumane people where treated. We once lived by a higher standard and we wanted the world to know we treated people with humanity and equality, so we treated them with such. Then when the public's ever shortening attention span is directed elsewhere the horrific abuses of human rights start. People are treated with indignities and left in primitive conditions. Their belongings before they where force from their homes are gone and they where not compensated and greedy white people came in immediately to tear apart the carcass that was once a hard earned life's work. Then after the war they where not given their homes back, no they where still ill treated and denied what was rightly theirs. Now we are doing almost the same to Mexican Americans and people from South America. We as a country will never learn because we refuse to see the situation for what it really is.
I'm sure many other people with none Japanese background will be just lazy with free foods shelter or become violent claiming more free things. I'm so proud of Japanese American in camp that they tried their best in what they are given to create little peaceful and educated society.
What non-Japanese people are you thinking of who in an internment camp would be "lazy with free foods shelter or become violent claiming more free things"?
Why don’t you say what you mean. Today Asians are being treated better than blacks, even with the ignorance of this administration blaming them for this virus. I’m not saying what happened to them was right or no way down playing it. They weren’t separated from mother’s and fathers like blacks were. They were able to farm and raise meat. The blacks were sold at auction like cattle. God Bless this racist nation.
I know its been years since you wrote this comment just wanted to say I totally agree with what you said. Its so sad that people don't realize that being deprived of human rights from the time most black Americans were forced to leave there homes in whatever country they originated from to be separated from most if not all there family to be enslaved for more years than one wouldn't even want to count (1776-1865) this same process of force being ripped away from your family being repeated continuously most of their lives. Its a ripple affect that leaves so many wounds and scars from generation to generation. No way am I diminishing what happen to these people in this documentary but its a different experience they had to suffer than for black Americans then and even now. I still remember my father telling of his experience fleeing the south during his time as a young man with his family because of Jim Crow laws and the lack of any opportunities to succeed where he lived.
I don't see why Americans should feel guilty about the internment of people of Japanese decent in WW2. I am not American, but from the docos I have seen, the internees got treated pretty well. Your country was at war, millions of Americans where conscripted for active duty or industry working in factories etc. In hindsight maybe the action was a bit excessive, but this is the benefit of hindsight. At the time the US didn't know whether Japanese Americans would be loyal to the US or Japan.If the US had of been cruel in their treatment that would change my opinion of the situation. I compare the lot of Japanese internees and their standard of living, versus the insecurity of long term unemployment facing a lot of people today. Look at all the street people in the US living in cardboard boxes etc. The Japanese had housing,medical,food, clothing, entertainment,dental, a sense of community and purpose,even education facilities. Many were able to leave each day and work outside for wages. I wouldn't mind a setup like this, in many respects they have better life than what a lot of people have today.
+chris higgens Well Mr Higgens I hope you are like 15 years old because your comments show such little insight. Their "crime" was being Japanese and in America we have a constitution and feel that all men are created equal. You are not supposed to be guilty because of your race. The older ones lost everything, their farms, almost all their possessions and their homes. Times were hard back then and they spent their whole lives to achieve modest success and lost it all and were too old to rebuild.
Given that they were provided for, they didn't need much money anyway. Prison food ? I think you are exaggerating. They looked pretty healthy to me. All their requirements were meet, except freedom. Well hell, it was war and a lot of Americans didn't have freedom, they were fighting or conscripted into war industries and had to do as they were told by the war office. My dad and uncles were all conscripted and had no say.Thats what happens in War. At least back then, given the standards of the day this was nothing out of the ordinary. Similar things in WW2 happened in many countries. I think you are using 2016 standards on the 1940s. You could do this with many things. I see many American citizens who have no work and are today provided for with much less. How are your unemployment benefits for the long term going??
Just imagine today as you read this, everyone with the last name of Higgens is told that they are considered a potential enemy of the country and you have 72 hours to report to a relocation center with only what you can carry. You are transported to a wasteland in the middle of nowhere to live in a tar paper shack. For the duration you will be provided with the basic necessities to keep you alive everything else you will have to build and create for yourselves. After the war you will be free with nothing to fend for yourself and family. But because of your name and the way you look, you will not be able to find housing nor a decent job, maybe a dishwasher or a house boy. Within a generation you and your decedents will become lawyers, doctors, engineers, politicians and successful business men. But people will still call you "Dirty Higgens, go back to where you came from we don't want your kind here!!" "You can't play with that Higgens, keep your slimy kid away from mine" I imagine your dad and uncles didn't have to go through that.
"Should they feel bad for something that happened 70 years ago? No. But they should remember it." This really hit me hard considering everything that is going on right now. How they handled things and stood up for themselves without dishonoring themselves is amazing... I loved every bit of this documentary. It brought me to tears but gave me hope. I can't imagine what it would have been like... I just can't. My heart hurts thinking about it. Bless them. God bless those who even after being put in the camp still fought for their country. They are truly amazing.
P.S a ginormous shout out to PBS. You have been in my life since I can remember life I hope you never go away. You’ve given me everything I’ve ever needed.🎉🎉🎉🎉
My grandma and her family was sent to Amache. My grandfather and his family was sent to Topaz. They never talked about it growing up, even avoiding or ignoring any question about the war from my Sis and I, and died without ever talking about it. Never forget this. Never justify this.
I’m so sorry, Talking about it must have been haunting. This country won’t admit what was wrongly done. Money helps but dignity has no price. It’s like history repeating itself with this current administration, People are treating Asian people like they personally started this pandemic
should not have been SILENT
@@nobonespurs won't get any arguments from me, tho I personally can't really blame them. Who know's what they experienced and how they coped with it.
@@btomimatsucunardmany just tried to erase it from their memory but the side effects were that many Japanese Americans experienced Alzheimer’s in their latter years of life.
It’s something not really talked about. If you follow closely you will see it. An Asian/Japanese man or woman wondering around not knowing who they are or where they live.
I would love to learn about this video but unfortunately, it does not have captions. I am deaf. Even auto-generated subtitles would suffice. Thank you.
There are various books about this and other internment camps. Brief study of these camps showed that they were basically similar in the what and how things were like. I've visited Manzanar and compared with various stories about the other camps. The many stories from these camps are repeats from the other camps. The basic stories are indistinguishable between camps.
Watch this film on PBS. On the PBS website the film comes with subtitles.
It’s happened before, and it can happen again… if we let it…
When they come for your neighbors,
Will YOU speak up?
I wonder, when they come for you, will anybody be left to stand up for you?
Or will it be too late?
My widowed mother in the 30's with 5 children from age 16 thru 9 had major surgery 2 weeks prior to notice to be relocated in one week and allowed to take only what we could carry. The FBI agents came into our hotel and confiscated all our rifles including our BB guns and my father's ceremonial sword he used to teach men's dances, which were never returned. During the second year of internment, we were informed that some homeless people moved into our hotel and burned the hotel down to the ground. The U.S. government paid us four hundred dollars ($400). We moved to Denver, CO. because we had no home to go back to. My oldest brother tried to enlist into the Army when he reached 17 years old, but was declare 4F
FBI STILL FULL OF FOOLS TODAY 2022
My father's was in Amache. His sister want to college in a near by town and would visit them in the relocation center.
put his name a Memorial! right here
Greed, prejudice, and lack of righteous politicians caused this injustice by the United States government. Only Colorado Governor Ralph L. Carr spoke up against this travesty of justice. -- Minoru "Min" Tonai, President Amache Historical Society
@@MrChow-sw5ub It was obviously unjust and abusive - how does pointing this out equal hating America? The US itself recognized this and Reagan signed the Civil Civil Liberties Act in 1988 officially apologizing and issuing reparations to every surviving victim who was incarcerated in those Japanese internment camps. America has also since imposed sanctions on foreign nations who put their countrymen in internment/concentration camps.
"sabotage the produce".... 🐛 It's like an annoying earworm👂🏻, because actually the Japanese people's land, crops and produce was being sabotaged by the government. Then they had to start all over in the internment camp tilling the earth, planting and fruit trees take time to produce, so the fast crops were controlled, and meanwhile their orchards and land back home were being harvested by the real strange(ers).
Note: the Japanese, whether American citizens or not, living in Hawaii--where Pearl Harbor is--were not relocated, jailed or segregated. But Hawaii at the time was not predominantly white yet.
It was never predominantly White. Hawaii is a majority Asian Pacific Islander state.
Not all Japanese were relocated in mainland either. Only the West coast.
even more of a threat of invasion there but state would collapse without workers so racism was put aside
Hawaii was not even part of the United States back in WW2. Only 48 states.
And it’s not technically true about Japanese Hawaiians not jailed. Many were. If the the US government found any slightest connection to Japan like having swords or Japan flag then they would get jailed until cleared. Not right.
There was a small camp too in Hawaii. Most don’t know about it.
It is more ironic though that the real possible threat was more so Hawaii and yet the US government didn’t round up like they did the west coast where 2/3 were US citizens.
It was almost like a land and property grab. If anybody is owed reparations by California it’s Japanese Americans.
Notice who covers this up. It’s Democrats.
I must say after having watched the whole doco the Japanese Americans served their detention with honour. and generally good humour. Most Japanese from reports showed great character. I like the Japanese people, I just wish that the Japanese govt would own up to the wrongs of WW2, especially some of the horrible atrocities,the way they treated prisoners etc and allow the education system in Japan to tell the facts of the war.
Wow i was born May 15 too
Fwiw they said many times many of the towers were unmanned.
Surprise attack? It was front page news... Japan expected to attack over weekend
Idiot, they were still on talk. Do you think america would just let them attack them and lose almost all their assets in hawaii that plays a vital role in defending their territories? Use you common sense!
@@MrChow-sw5ub You're just like so many others! You hate America! Go ahead that's your choice I suppose!
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@@MrChow-sw5ub You think they're abused?
Hi vandersommers anyone
History ,mostly distasteful ,is what we learn from it.
There would have been more money for reparations if that jackass Reagan hadn't squandered billions on Star Wars. $20,000 is an insult.
Nothing is worst, blacks weren’t given a dime. The U.S needs to understand that you can pay your sins away and dignity has no price
@Master Blackthorne
I just recently learned that reagan bought the Polish Solidarity movement (without congressional approval) over two million dollars in office supplies to destabilize their government through propaganda, whilst here in his own country cutting everything from unemployment benefits, General Assistance, an increase in Social Security benefits, and school lunches!
@@patriciah1187 gov did internment, private people did slavery
People that say ,"well Americans in other countries where put in camps" is not what should be used to justify these actions. This country constantly harps on about humanity, equality and fairness yet you seldom see any of those things involved in what happens. All America does is talk about fairness, talk and talk and talk. Then later on you find out about how inhumane people where treated. We once lived by a higher standard and we wanted the world to know we treated people with humanity and equality, so we treated them with such. Then when the public's ever shortening attention span is directed elsewhere the horrific abuses of human rights start. People are treated with indignities and left in primitive conditions. Their belongings before they where force from their homes are gone and they where not compensated and greedy white people came in immediately to tear apart the carcass that was once a hard earned life's work. Then after the war they where not given their homes back, no they where still ill treated and denied what was rightly theirs. Now we are doing almost the same to Mexican Americans and people from South America. We as a country will never learn because we refuse to see the situation for what it really is.
Great and timely documentary given the inherent racism the GOP has embraced.
I'm sure many other people with none Japanese background will be just lazy with free foods shelter or become violent claiming more free things. I'm so proud of Japanese American in camp that they tried their best in what they are given to create little peaceful and educated society.
What non-Japanese people are you thinking of who in an internment camp would be "lazy with free foods shelter or become violent claiming more free things"?
Why don’t you say what you mean. Today Asians are being treated better than blacks, even with the ignorance of this administration blaming them for this virus. I’m not saying what happened to them was right or no way down playing it. They weren’t separated from mother’s and fathers like blacks were. They were able to farm and raise meat. The blacks were sold at auction like cattle.
God Bless this racist nation.
I know its been years since you wrote this comment just wanted to say I totally agree with what you said. Its so sad that people don't realize that being deprived of human rights from the time most black Americans were forced to leave there homes in whatever country they originated from to be separated from most if not all there family to be enslaved for more years than one wouldn't even want to count (1776-1865) this same process of force being ripped away from your family being repeated continuously most of their lives. Its a ripple affect that leaves so many wounds and scars from generation to generation. No way am I diminishing what happen to these people in this documentary but its a different experience they had to suffer than for black Americans then and even now. I still remember my father telling of his experience fleeing the south during his time as a young man with his family because of Jim Crow laws and the lack of any opportunities to succeed where he lived.
Because we had been attacked by their country. Stop the bull
Land of the free ,unless your Asian or native american
I don't see why Americans should feel guilty about the internment of people of Japanese decent in WW2. I am not American, but from the docos I have seen, the internees got treated pretty well. Your country was at war, millions of Americans where conscripted for active duty or industry working in factories etc. In hindsight maybe the action was a bit excessive, but this is the benefit of hindsight. At the time the US didn't know whether Japanese Americans would be loyal to the US or Japan.If the US had of been cruel in their treatment that would change my opinion of the situation. I compare the lot of Japanese internees and their standard of living, versus the insecurity of long term unemployment facing a lot of people today. Look at all the street people in the US living in cardboard boxes etc. The Japanese had housing,medical,food, clothing, entertainment,dental, a sense of community and purpose,even education facilities. Many were able to leave each day and work outside for wages. I wouldn't mind a setup like this, in many respects they have better life than what a lot of people have today.
+chris higgens Well Mr Higgens I hope you are like 15 years old because your comments show such little insight. Their "crime" was being Japanese and in America we have a constitution and feel that all men are created equal. You are not supposed to be guilty because of your race. The older ones lost everything, their farms, almost all their possessions and their homes. Times were hard back then and they spent their whole lives to achieve modest success and lost it all and were too old to rebuild.
+Elizabeth Hayashi Well played LOL...
chris higgens Doctors making $19 a month, business owners making $12- $16 a month, fed prison food? yea great life.
Given that they were provided for, they didn't need much money anyway. Prison food ? I think you are exaggerating. They looked pretty healthy to me. All their requirements were meet, except freedom. Well hell, it was war and a lot of Americans didn't have freedom, they were fighting or conscripted into war industries and had to do as they were told by the war office. My dad and uncles were all conscripted and had no say.Thats what happens in War. At least back then, given the standards of the day this was nothing out of the ordinary. Similar things in WW2 happened in many countries. I think you are using 2016 standards on the 1940s. You could do this with many things.
I see many American citizens who have no work and are today provided for with much less. How are your unemployment benefits for the long term going??
Just imagine today as you read this, everyone with the last name of Higgens is told that they are considered a potential enemy of the country and you have 72 hours to report to a relocation center with only what you can carry. You are transported to a wasteland in the middle of nowhere to live in a tar paper shack. For the duration you will be provided with the basic necessities to keep you alive everything else you will have to build and create for yourselves. After the war you will be free with nothing to fend for yourself and family. But because of your name and the way you look, you will not be able to find housing nor a decent job, maybe a dishwasher or a house boy. Within a generation you and your decedents will become lawyers, doctors, engineers, politicians and successful business men. But people will still call you "Dirty Higgens, go back to where you came from we don't want your kind here!!" "You can't play with that Higgens, keep your slimy kid away from mine" I imagine your dad and uncles didn't have to go through that.