Remembering Manzanar Documentary
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.พ. 2017
- Through the use of rare historic footage and photographs, and personal recollections of a dozen former incarcerees and others, Remembering Manzanar explores the experiences of more than 10,000 Japanese Americans who were incarcerated in a remote desert facility during World War II.
Created as the "introductory film" at Manzanar National Historic Site, Remembering Manzanar gives viewers a sense of the place and its past, and a glimpse into a time when American citizens were exiled because of their ancestry.
Original score by Kazu and Keiko Matsui.
22 minutes
![มองหน้ากันไม่ติด (Awkward) - โอ๊ต ปราโมทย์ FEAT. MAIYARAP [Official MV]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/4b02SY_r6Gw/mqdefault.jpg)
For those of you who think this was justified. Ask yourselves, if it happened to you, how would you feel? How would you respond? If the government took your job, your land, your money, your rights, and your freedom from you? Basic rights afforded to you by the U.S. Constitution out the window. Just because you "looked" like the enemy. It is a sobering thought to say the least. And having gone through all of this, the volunteer all Japanese-American 442nd Regimental Combat Unit became the most decorated unit in U.S. military history. May we never forget this history so we can learn from it and never repeat it.
Yea people like J R dont get to discount the autracity of the interment camps. (J R is a racist who comments on all the threads)
In Oahu Airport they have a tribute to the Nisei Unit and have some of their artifacts along with a documentary playing. It was nice to see them honored.
What Rosezanne said.
They stoled my grandfathers farm when he was the garlic king of Gilroy, Ca.
He was the first to grow garlic and he owned hundreds of acers of farm land from along Hwy 152 from 101 to Casa de Fruita.
He was taken away one night by the FBI and imprisoned for nearly three years.
The eight children, all born in Gilroy, had to pack up and move themselves to Grand Junction Co. The eldest sibling was 18 years old.
My father and his siblings waited to see if he would show up at the camp. They had no contact with their father and didn’t know what to do.
My grandfathers land was divided into seven parcels to seven lawyers which only one kept his word and returned the 1/7th of his farm.
The “friends” who worked the 6 parcels during the war still own it to this day.
I want to get it back.
Gilroy is trying to hide its garlic background today and it’s a shame.
It’s the most interesting history you’ve never heard.
"We don't have a king or queen. We have a constitution and when we violate that constitution we begin to unravel as a nation."
This bears repeating every time a President attempts to piss on it.
Precisely. The principles of the U.S. Constitution should never be set aside.
I am native American and on quite a bit on native reservations they put some japanese on reservations with my grandparents, some dorms and duplex houses where Japanese American people stayed with our people on our reservations too. I think i may drive to the old dorms and should upload it .
Like most parts of the world upon which nations were built, there is an ugly past. It's good to be reminded of that. It wasn't that long ago and sadly our nation is still going through growing pains.
I am watching this for a diversity class. My heart broke the most, however, when one man recalled having to abandon their dog and that all Japanese people had to abandon their animals as well. As a pet owner, I could not imagine being force to leave a family member behind...
I feel you, I only could imagine what it was like for babies being cut out their mother stomach while hanging by the neck on a tree.
My dad had to leave his dog behind. Grandma said to find Harry, just find his dog.
Amazing Video. Thank you!
Thank you for sharing.
What this documentary doesn't mention is that America practically begged the emperor to allow his people to come here. Why? Because the Chinese Exclusion Act left a massive hole in the labor pool. Such is America: kick a group out, then beg another to come in and do the work left by the ones just expelled.
And when the Japanese were imprisoned, the Bracero program was created to replace them with Mexicans.
So when the Confederacy was defeated who took the places former slaves left?.
So sad and so wrong. We must do better as a society.
My mother's first husband (high school sweethearts) was our town's first causality in WWII (Coral Sea), they named the American Legion Hall after him. My mother was informed of her husbands death on her birthday. One of her friends in HS was Japanese American, a bright, popular girl. I am grateful that my mother always spoke well of the Japanese people and I was brought up devoid of hatred and racism.
"It is in no way a concentration camp." Well what the hell do you call it then? "War relocation center" is a euphemism. Knowing what the Nazis did to the Jews during WWII there was effectively no difference between the two -- other than Hitler's blood lust. These Americans went voluntarily because they were patriots, and they understood that Hirohito was chiefly responsible for ratcheting up the racism against Japanese Americans and were deferential to the War Dept's decision to do this. Which is far more magnanimity than they were shown by their fellow Americans during and long after the war was over. You notice the Federal Govt made no attempt to round up Americans of German ancestry, and the reason is obvious. Government-sponsored racism masked under the pretext of war. I think the most valuable thing that might have come from this sad chapter in our history is that America is capable of facing its mistakes, admitting them, and doing something to make it right.
A pluralistic society is one of America's strengths and always has been. But its natural enemy has always been Man's proclivity for tribalism and racial arrogance. As one can plainly see presently, the fight against Man's worst instincts may never be won; but a nation whose first obligation is protecting the God-given rights of EVERY person is best equipped to wage that battle. And as we all know, the first step in treating a problem is admitting you have one. Manzanar, if nothing else, is a monument to that principle.
Brian E internment camp
I'd like to point out that these prison's full of innocent japanese was the idea,and implemented,by a progressive, leftist. President Franklin D Roosevelt. The barak obama of his time.
Well said.
@@generalzod8589 Adolf Hitler was a right-wing fascist reactionary conservative btw.
But you see where this game of semantics gets you?
The truth js Roosevelt was simply a racist President in an ULTRA racist society. He certainly couldn't have become President otherwise, and his "left-wing programs" were certainly implemented with a tint of racist favouritism despite how they did also make unprecedented attempts in-part include oppressed minorities.
So we could play the semantics game or we can get to the heart of it, and that is the fact that despite FDR's progressive politics, he was no Eugene Victor Debs and he certainly was not a member of the Socialist Party in America nevermind the Communists.
But keep holding onto this fantasy that not only blurs the lines between these different organisations, but claims they are somehow one and the same thing.
I was watching an interview with mike shinoda from linkin park, he mentioned this internment camp. I HAD NO idea that this happened in the us in WWII. I love learning about WWII but I’m so shocked because nowhere in history class or through the books I’ve read, to the movies and documentaries I’ve watched on WWII. This hurts because I’m half Native American and Mexican and my Native side’s history is very misconstrued in history books. So to know there’s a connection like this hurts really bad. I’m so sorry to those who had to live through this.
It took until my early 50s to learn of Manzanar and the Japanese internment camps, and this was after constantly driving by the site dozens of times when I was a teenager making the trek from L.A. to Mammoth Lakes on a regular basis -- and I found myself cursing the public school system there for not devoting even one sentence in our history textbooks to this travesty. And I'm sure it's because they knew I and my fellow students, after being taught civics and the virtues of our constitutional system, would have questioned why it somehow didn't apply to Japanese-Americans. I don't think my history teachers would've been able to formulate a coherent answer to that question just 25 years after WWII ended.
Please read the story of Ralph Lazo. Mexican American who volunteered to join a Japanese American internment camp to be with his neighbors from East Los Angeles.
The roots are Mexican Americans and Japanese Americans go way back. 👍
There are connections even between African Americans and Japanese Americans. They lived side by side in areas such as Crenshaw, CA and Gardena.
My Great grandma was in Heart Mountain Internment Camp, Wyoming. Her parents were in Manzanar Internment camp.
Amazing. And since you are here I guess they werent killed or abused were they?
Thank you for sharing this. Please reach out via our website (www.nps.gov/manz/contacts.htm) if you would like us to email you copies of your family's historic rosters from both Heart Mountain and Manzanar.
@@JR-cg1rq You seem to be going out of your way to defend this travesty. Why?
15:30 omfg. What a story. Man gets Medal of Honor. And mother behind barbed wire.
Right where she belonged. Safe and sound. Nothing happened tor her whatsoever. And above all nothing happened to US Navy shipping from the West Coast
@@JR-cg1rq wtf is wrong with you? Have you looked up Long Beach/Terminal Island before and after ww2 ? Most of the fishing areas belonged to Japanese people who mostly were born in the US. When the Japanese people returned from the concentration camps, they lost their houses and lands. Grand total property loss for Japanese people is about $400 million, the US govt paid $38 mil + $20,000 during Reagan admin. was SHE really okay?
The grandkids were our friends we went to school with they never got over what happened to them they acted scared 20 yrs later it was sad rosmead calif
They sent them as soldiers, but still segregated. This is mindboggling.
Starting in 1943 they were able to leave the camps but they could not move back into the exclusion zone.
The exclusion zone were areas overlooking US Naval bases.... lets mention that shall we?
@@JR-cg1rq The Military Exclusion Zones, or Military Areas 1 and 2, from which Japanese Americans were excluded, encompassed the entirety of the state of California, the western halves of Oregon and Washington, and the southern half of Arizona -- very little of which was anywhere near naval bases.
To the core of truth! Well done.
If I have this right, the interns were compensated by the Federal Government in 1956, 1959 and 1988. But you have to admire their sense of hard work, morality and patriotism.
Not aware of any compensation from 1956 or 1959. Can you elaborate. Thanks
Crazy how they got treated
Sad but during those times it was rough for them
Until Manzanar was made into an attraction it was an abandoned unprotected site. Cattle were put inside the fenced area and freely roamed. Long ago material such as broken plates, a child's rusty tricycle, a Japanese style sandal made from a 2x4 that used the straps of a man's T-shirt could be found. The relic tricycle was placed in a bamboo thicket next to a dry Japanese pond. It was hoped someday it would go on display somewhere meaningful. The sandal was given to a Japanese American gal from Oregon who wanted it for some display up in that area. What happened to all the building materials? Taken by locals perhaps as this was an uncared for abandoned place. Now that it is protected I wonder if anyone ever found that tricycle and preserved it? NPS you might consider looking for relics beyond the limits of the fenced area. Some of the internees would throw items out beyond the fence. Broken abalone shells, tools, batteries, bottles and who knows what else? Cal. State Northridge should still have a large cache of Interment camp newspapers donated to it back when it was San Fernando Valley State College.
Manzanar was a wonderful place where Japanese were kept out of harms way for 3 years. They had gardens, they had library, they
raised livestock. They live healthy happy lives and 100% of them survived a war that killed millions. Did they teach you that? Tell us what communist propaganda you were forced to memorize?
@@JR-cg1rq Hey JR I was just sharing what it was like when I was there there in the 1970's with bits of artifacts still here and there. Droppings among the broken plates under the trees indicated to me local ranchers legally or illegally apparently used the three strand barb wire enclosure to keep cattle there.
@@JR-cg1rq jesus you're defending the imprisonment of innocent American citizens??
@@JR-cg1rq Again, while people did read, talk to friends, and grow vegetables while incarcerated in Manzanar, 150 people also died. Two of these were young men, 17 and 21, entirely unarmed, who were shot and killed by Military Police. Military Police shot nine other unarmed people in Manzanar, a few of whom spent months in the hospital. Those who died in Manzanar never got to learn that they would be released, and that one day the US Government
(during the presidency of Ronald Reagan) would apologize and pay restitution for its actions. The US Government incarcerated 11,070 people in Manzanar, and every single person had a different experience.
@@JR-cg1rq It seems like you didnt even watch the video. It is shameful to act like this autracity was exagerated
Stevie T brought me here😅
Me too😅
youre not alone..
So I wasn't the only one then
Me too
Who's that?
I WATCHED THIS TODAY! [In a museum ofc]
Issei. As if it's a bad word. They were just the first generation of their families in USA.
Just visited there, sad, glad we didn't make the same mistake after 9-11
May the injustices and humiliation suffered here as a result of hysteria, racism and economic exploitation never emerge again...
14:10 some sent to Japan
11:27 it looks like the bad guy from the movie UP
bruh you're right (i'm will)
@@ExperiGamer what are you guys doing here (Ty V)
Almonds watching the video wbu
1.
Introductury text needs to show 120,000, not 12,000.
2.
Fun fact: No German-Americans were 'interned' (i.e. pillaged, dispossesed, and tortured) nor were any Italian-Americans.
Only Japanese-Americans. Because, you know, racism.
3.
And, finishing with someone saying 'America is the best country in the world'...What a cruel and mad final note to end on.
'
11:07
4:03
Ye
Hi Mr Iglesias
13:00 young men shot and killed
Its just medal of honor... not congressional
These stories need to be told it's been swept under the rug and called "Interment". It was a concentration camp just like Germany. They didn't murder anyone or maltreat them can you imagine being told have to live in a wooden shack in the hot desert with no running water. This was designed to hamulate American born citizens. The General who designed it was a known racist. When someone talks about the constitution, I point to this and say where was the constitution when American born citizens were rounded up put into camps based on their race. The restitution was a joke IMO 50k dollars for people who lost their property likely worth millions today.
Didn't they lock up the Chinese to, because they couldn't tell them apart?
Thanks for your question. The only people of Chinese ancestry that were incarcerated in this way were married to people of Japanese ancestry. Some did feel compelled to wear buttons that said "I am Chinese."
What country forced them into the camps ?
The United States did.
The land of the free...
@@ramenlover1727 That's true, they said it was for their protection... yeah right!
@@ramenlover1727 Horrific indeed but in a sense, they were lucky, the people in Japan got much worse, the supposed good guys killed 100,000 people in one night, probably a record that won't ever be beaten, attacking a city made of wood and paper with incendiary bombs??? No one in their right mind would ever think of doing something like that.
@@ramenlover1727 Yes but that's not war, civilians were always kept out of it as much as possible, now most powerful military that ever existed specifically looks for civilians in order to kill as many as possible, before it was military against military and may the better win, now it's the most vicious lying bastards who win the wars by destroying everything and killing everyone.
Between the two Iraq wars of 1991 and 2003, half a million Iraqi children died because of the US blockade of basic medications and chlorine to purify water, 500,000, the US would not let Tylenol go in, the al-taliban might make bombs with it they said. Now things like that should not be tolerated, that's not war. We live in a strange world.
Is anyone watching is Mrs. Connors lolll?
yesss 🫣
The last three minutes says it all to me, CONSTITUTION, Pay attention and look at the direction this country is headed now
Fort minor - kenji brought me here
Stevie T sent me here
(No at least Manzanar)
Yeah
Karate kid brought me here 😟
Pat Morita spent a couple of years at the Gila River internment camp with his family, and then was transferred to Tule Lake for the remainder of the war.
Prisoners of war in their own country
Japanese suffered in the US during the WW 2 and Indonesian suffered a lot because the brutality of the Japanese soldiers in Indonesia :(
What "suffering" are you talking about? During a war that killed 50 million people by burning, shooting starvation the "suffering" Japanese lived quietly in total safety raising vegetables and reading in the camp library. Nothing whatsoever happened to them. The luckiest people on earth. now lets talk about the damage your brainwashing has caused
@@JR-cg1rq
Do you know what book that I can get to read the legit information about Manzanar from different perspective? I'm in the middle of my writing book and more information from different perspective will be great source.
Thank's.
The Japanese Americans didnt have anything to do with the Empire of Japan's war effort though. Trying to make any connection is beyond ridiculous
@@Spongebrain97 Doesnt matter. Not interested. There was a war in Pacific ships, and men were moving out of San Francisco and San Diego. Just one set of eyes, counting ships, counting types of ships as they left heading West was a massive threat to US military forces. That this simple fact means nothing to you or the cost in US lives is not something you care about .. instead you identify with the fake "victims" your mind has created means you are contaminated by Leftist indoctrination and your thoughts on any subject will be skewed and traitorous. You cant help yourself. Its what you are.
@@JR-cg1rq given the fact that the US mainland was never under serious threat there was literally no reason to send American citizens into camps. Based on what you've said in every comment threat, its safe to assume you're just racist. It doesnt take "leftist" to acknowledge that internment camps were a terrible idea. Literally most people on both sides of the political spectrum agree with this. You're probably part of the "hitler did nothing wrong crowd" 🤣
Me
both sides of my family was here. yamada and ohono yo f you FDR
6:10. Voluntary relocation that. Is fake news
We did to the Indians, We did it to the japanese. The way this country is headed, Maybe we are next, Government wants it all.
COVID camps soon?
this joke has worst taste than nodrog ysmar
@@publicfart Joke?
"German quarantine breakers to be held in refugee camps, detention centers" nypost.com/2021/01/18/german-quarantine-breakers-to-be-held-in-refugee-camps/
@@ramenlover1727 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
Blyatiful USSA
This is not a concentration camp... do you believe me?
Horrible this is government don't trust government
Another shameful chapter in American history.
FDR, a Democrat, wanted the internment camps, despite the Republicans protest.
Republicans TODAY support and want concentration camps. Democrats want them gone.
The parties switch roles throughout history, a better way to divide them is Liberal and Conservative, and in this time period, democrats were mostly conservative while republicans were mostly liberal, today the opposite is true, but the types of people who are liberal and conservative are mostly the same
@@brandondutchik2349 wanting freedom and liberties for everyone is not a liberal or conservative ideal. It's a unilateral American ideal.
That is not accurate.
@@patriciabiggs9790
What do you think about this 5 minute video:
"The Inconvenient Truth About The Democrat Party"
th-cam.com/video/g_a7dQXilCo/w-d-xo.html
Black Lives Matter:
This is a MUST WATCH 10 min. Video of Ben Shapiro in a "#BlackLivesMatter Smack Down Debate in Seattle"
th-cam.com/video/y789ZRj_a_2q/w-d-xo.htmlM.
"O'Reilly UTTERLY DESTROYS ‘Black Lives Matter’ [VIDEO]"
"Bill O’Reilly is fearlessly telling the truth and they are NOT the truths that the Black Lives Matter movement wants to hear. However, that does not come as a complete shocker, seeing how the entire basis of their existence was founded on FICTION."
rightwingnews.com/media/oreilly-takes-gloves-off-utterly-destroys-black-lives-matter/
This 5 minute video explains how modern racists operate. Which party is guilty of doing this?
(625,745 views)
"Don't Judge Blacks Differently"
m.th-cam.com/video/xl7Q36V9pg4/w-d-xo.html
What do you think about this 5 min. video?
"Who Are the Racists: Conservatives or Liberals? " (644,538 views)
m.th-cam.com/video/7VBAEJlR4pk/w-d-xo.html
What do you think about this 5 min video?:
"Are The Police Racist?"
th-cam.com/video/UQCQFH5wOJo/w-d-xo.html
What do you think about this 5 minute video?
"Top Five Issues Facing Black Students"
th-cam.com/video/faolY5_hnIc/w-d-xo.html
Can you believe Affirmative Action applies to illegal aliens?
What do you think about this 5 minute video?
"What is the University Diversity Scam?"
(724,356 views)
m.th-cam.com/video/g60ON91ClLA/w-d-xo.html
What do you think about this 5 minute video?
"Why do Blacks vote for Democrats: the party of slavery, segregation, KKK, & Jim Crow?"
2014The Republican Party was born as the anti-slavery party and who, for 150 years, fought against racist, segregationist, and anti-Black Democrats who opposed every equal rights law that Republicans overwhelmingly passed. The Democrats also filibustered every civil rights law proposed by Republicans.
George Soros:
Watch the video for yoyrself.
"George Soros Is Proud Of Using Nazis"
This is the guy promoting division and destabilization in Smerica:
www.infowars.com/60-minutes-george-soros-is-proud-of-using-nazis/
BREAKING: SCRUBBED 1998 GEORGE SOROS Video Resurfaces!…Admits He Confiscated Property From Jews In WWII…Hung Out With Hillary In Haiti [VIDEO]
100percentfedup.com/breaking-scrubbed-1998-george-soros-video-resurfacesadmits-confiscated-property-jews-wwiihung-hillary-haiti-video/
It's funny how people like you wanted the "Fairness Doctorine", yet you guys can't stand to hear any of the facts of the other side of fhe story. Why don't you look into the other side of the story before you make up your mind? Or are you are what Joseph Stalin would call "a useful idiot".
The Democrats are desperate to promote and exploit racism because they need to get the low information voters worked up to vote for the party that fought FOR slavery, and against Civil Rights; i.e. the Democrat party.
Did you know Martin Luther King Jr. was a Republican?
Dix·ie·crat ˈdiksēˌkrat/
Any of the Southern Democrats who seceded from the party in 1948 in opposition to its policy of extending civil rights
If you want to eliminate racism, eliminate the Democratic Party:
Look who voted for all this racism:
Democrats fought to expand slavery while Republicans fought to end it. (Can you say Civil War?)
Democrats passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws. (Both were southern Democratic attempts to constrict black freedom after the Civil War.)
bad
Americans were too polite. Other peoples would not have been too polite against the people who invaded them
Two-thirds of those incarcerated at Manzanar were US citizens by birth and the rest were their immigrant parents (who were not legally allowed to naturalize at the time). It is important to remember that the Japanese Imperial Military bombed Pearl Harbor, not the people of Japanese ancestry that were living in the US.
1. Just because it was “better” compared to other countries, doesn’t mean it was the right thing to do. 2. That “You people” mentality is ignorant. Not every Japanese/Japanese decent person was apart of or even supported the Pearl Harbor attack. So they shouldn’t have had to suffer for things others did.
And what should have been done with German-Americans? And Italian-Americans? (Germany and Italy were enemies of the USA during WW2. ) - I'll wait...