Shelley Baker-Gard Michael Freiling Satsuki Takikawa
In 1942, after the passage of Executive Order 9066, Japanese families were removed from their homes in Oregon and the Yakima Valley and sent to the Portland International Livestock Exposition Center, where they were housed in converted animal stalls. The Wartime Civil Control Administration kept internees at the Portland Assembly Center until September 1942, when they were transferred to newly built permanent internment camps at Minidoka, Heart Mountain, and Tule Lake. The Japanese American communities in Oregon and southern Washington were relatively small and many of the detainees knew...
In 1942, after the passage of Executive Order 9066, Japanese families were removed from their homes in Oregon and the Yakima Valley and sent to the Po...
