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Browse Full-length Non-member Titles![Middle-aged Japanese woman sits across camera, hands folded and resting on the table in front of her. Caption. So they very quickly shrouded the whole incarceration.](https://org-dcmp-staticassets.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/posterimages/4385_1.jpg)
High school students have four days to discover what life was like for Japanese-American teenagers living in Manzanar Internment Camp during World War II. Interviews with former camp inmates and visiting the ruins of the camp cause them to ask, "What would I have done?" "Could it happen to me?"
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Runtime: 28 minutes 59 seconds
- Topic: History, Social Science
- Subtopic: Japanese Americans, Social Issues, U.S. History - 1934-1945
- Grade/Interest Level: 9 - 12
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- Release Year: 2000
- Producer/Distributor: Japanese American National Museum
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