Minidoka National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)

Minidoka National Historic Site • ID,WA

The replicated Minidoka Honor Roll is part of the history at Minidoka NHS.

A view from Minidoka through the barbed wire fence.

A view of the Northside Canal and reconstructed barbed wire fence.

An original barrack was retuned to Minidoka and placed on site.

During World War II, over 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry were forcibly removed from their homes and incarcerated without due process of law. Although little remains of the barbed-wire fences and tar-papered barracks, the Minidoka concentration camp once held over 13,000 Japanese Americans in the Idaho desert. Minidoka preserves their legacy and teaches the importance of civil liberties.

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Duration:: 30 minutes, 1 second

Watch the official park film for Minidoka National Historic Site, narrated by actor and activist George Takei. Learn about the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, the experiences of survivors and their descendants, and the site's relevance to the complicated issues Americans face today.