Matthew Mariner
The latest item to be added to the Auraria Library Digital Collections is a series of 35mm slides of Japanese-American internees used in an undated JACL presentation on internment. This small collection of 80 slides contains images of families being uprooted from their homes, boarded onto buses and trains, and relocated to various internment camps around the Western United States. The majority of the images are of families in Manzanar, a camp in the Owens Valley of California, which housed over 110,000 Japanese-Americans during the course of World War II. This collection shows the purest cruelties, but also the resiliency of a group of Americans wrongly treated, attempting in the worst circumstances to maintain some semblance of their former lives.
