Japanese American Internment Camp Survivor Part 1

[dancindarla]

Thanks so much for interviewing! Just what i need for an article i'm doing on the Japanese Internment. And it takes a lot of courage for the survivor to be willing to share her story! Amazing!

[shariandfamily]

Good job, Alyssa, these stories must be told.

[clearlogicify]

Internment Camp Survivor? As if it were a death camp.

[meperez09]

@clearlogicify there is certain violence lived when being isolated like that....

[clearlogicify]

@meperez09 Yeah, but the choice of words used is largely associated with death camps. While the internment camps did a lot of harm (prob the greatest impact was to the Japanese family structure) and were terrible things, they were far from forced labor/death camps, where the function was to have a death quota per week. Survival from internment was the norm.

[sawdudeful]

@clearlogicify it was in a way. some people were beaten for no reason. some people died of diseases because the guards wouldn't let them have medical help.

[clearlogicify]

@sawdudeful Yes, some. Have you seen the liberated death camp footage? The SS guards forced to carry thousands of starved people to mass graves. All near skeletons, men, women and children's naked bodies thrown on top of one another in mass graves.

Maybe you've seen the barn that was burned down to try and hide the camp activities. A few bodies half burned caught under the narrow openings of the door. Or the results of flamethrowers on the few that managed to get out.

Really, no comparison.

[clearlogicify]

@sawdudeful Yes, some. Have you seen the liberated death camp footage? The SS guards forced to carry thousands of starved people to mass graves. All near skeletons, men, women and children's naked bodies thrown on top of one another in mass graves.

Maybe you've seen the barn that was burned down to try and hide the camp activities. A few bodies half burned caught under the narrow openings of the door. Or the results of flamethrowers on the few that managed to get out.

Really, no comparison.

[clearlogicify]

@sawdudeful Probably, but the break-down of the Japanese family structure was a far great damage than regular beating (not that they were regular). I'm sure disease was an issue at times.

Watch any ww2 death/labor camp liberation video (the Hitchcock one was esp graphic) and come back and tell me what you think. Forget the pulling of teeth, stripping and gassing, just look at the aftermath on many of the small and numerous camps. Tell me they are just as bad, or even close, I'll be shocked. 

[torofighter]

cute lady :)

Great interview