• Mt. Williamson and cemetery monument

    Manzanar

    National Historic Site California

Photos & Multimedia

We encourage you to visit Manzanar and experience firsthand the desert environment that we call home. Until then, please enjoy the photo galleries with historic photos of camp days. The virtual tour is still under construction.

Did You Know?

Map of Hawaii, 1927.

Hours after Pearl Harbor the Hawaiian territorial governor declared martial law. With the exception of about 2,000 people confined in Hawaii or on the mainland, Japanese Americans were not forcibly removed from the islands. They comprised one-third of the population and their labor was essential for the war effort.