CENTENNIAL SUNDAYS
Interned in Santa Fe
More than 4,000 Japanese Americans were held at the Santa Fe Internment camp between 1942 and 1946, making it one of the largest internment camps created by the U.S. Department of Justice.
Most were Japanese immigrant men 鈥� among them teachers, community leaders and businessmen 鈥� from the West Coast, Hawaii and Latin America. The camp also held some German and Italian immigrants.
The camp included wooden barracks, and those interned faced extreme temperatures ranging from the 90s in the summer to sub-freezing in the winter.
In 2002, a historical marker was placed in Frank S. Ortiz Park, near the site of the camp, as a remembrance of that dark chapter in New Mexico history.
Karen Moses is a former editor of the sa国际传媒官网网页入口. Reach her at kmoses@abqjournal.com.
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