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Minidoka, where Idaho held Japanese Americans
1942
Jerome County, Idaho
Tamanoeconomico · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Around 13,000 Japanese Americans, mostly from Seattle and Portland, were held on Idaho sagebrush. Local farmers were short of labour and internees were let out to harvest sugar beets. The camp's men volunteered for the army at one of the highest rates of any camp.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: documented spot
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