Tuesday, July 31, 2012

New Documentary About Internment Camps Released

Singled Out!  Jerome and Rohwer, a documentary about the World War II Japanese relocation camps in Arkansas, debuted last night on Fossil HD (fossilhd.com).  The film will only be on Fossil HD for a short period of time and then will be available on DVD.

You can watch it by clicking on the Fossil HD tab at the top of this page.

(Left)  The lone smokestack from the incinerator is all that remains of the camp today at Jerome today.
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousJuly 31, 2012 at 11:08 PM

    In Ludecke v. Watkins, a German immigrant who was interned filed an anti internment case. The Supreme Court ruled that when the U.S. goes to war, all immigrants from that country are subject to internment and or deportation at the government’s whim and the immigrant has no due process rights nor can a court intervene in the deportation. It doesn’t matter if you have an American spouse or children or property. Your legal status is now Enemy Alien and you could for no reason other than your ethnicity, be locked up or deported.

    Truth is, few remember the internment. We remember the Relocation and call it the internment. In the Internment, the FBI came and took you away, leaving your family to fend for itself with all of your neighbors being left to assume that you are a spy. Often times the interned was just the husband, although there are examples of women being taken without their husbands. In Hawaii, the children were often left to fend for themselves if both parents were taken. I know one of the children that this happened to. There was no relocation in Hawaii. Some Jews were interned because the government didn't differentiate between ethnic Jew and ethnic German. We do not know how many Germans and Italians were relocated. They were not put in camps. They were just told to get out and they had to pay their own way. The most famous though, was the father of Joe DiMaggio.

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  2. AnonymousJuly 31, 2012 at 11:12 PM

    There was a family camp in Crystal City Texas that was very multiethnic and multinational. On you tube there is a video of Crystal City that you can see the people who were actually locked up there.

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  3. AD JacobsAugust 1, 2012 at 3:22 PM

    At http://www.foitimes.com you can learn more regarding internment!

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