Minidoka Relocation Center

Minidoka Relocation Center was one of ten American concentration camps established in World War II to incarcerate 110,000 Americans of Japanese decent in coastal regions off the Pacific states. Here 10,000 Japanese American victims of war-time hysteria occupied a 950-acre camp, living a bleak, humiliating life in tarpaper barracks, behind barbed wire and under armed guard. A waiting room was often filled with visitors anxious to see and support friends and family restricted to life within the camp, while a guard house monitored all movement in and out of the relocation center. The camps stand as a reminder of what can happen when other factors supersede the constitutional rights guaranteed to all citizens and aliens living in this country.

Idaho · United States