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Established and run by the War Relocation Authority (WRA), ten "War Relocation Centers," across the United States imprisoned people of Japanese ancestry.
At first glance, the pages of the 1944 Résumé yearbook make Rohwer Center High School seem like any other high school on the Home Front, rich with student life, activities, victory gardens and dances. In reality, however, the experience of Rohwer Center students couldn’t have been more different.
The school, located at the Rohwer War Relocation Center, was created to educate the children of Japanese American descent who were forced from their homes along the West Coast of the United States and required to live behind barbed wire for the duration of WWII, far from the homes they knew.
Located in Artesia, California, Excelsior Union High School was and is home to an ethnically diverse population, including a substantial Asian American minority. This diversity is reflected in the pages of El Aviador, Excelsior Union’s 1942 yearbook.
Short film produced in 1944 by the War Relocation Authority (WRA)
Ansel Adams Gallery
Dorothea Lange Gallery
Bill Manbo Gallery
Rare Kodachrome Photographs of Japanese American Incarceration in World War II
$35.00
This exhibit has been made possible through a gift from The Annenberg Foundation
With additional support from the Eugenie and Joseph Jones Family Foundation
The National WWII Museum tells the story of the American Experience in the war that changed the world - why it was fought, how it was won, and what it means today - so that all generations will understand the price of freedom and be inspired by what they learn.
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