A short documentary by acclaimed filmmaker, Ken Burns, can be viewed here. It runs about 13 minutes.

Note: At 12:22 there are yellow signs with black lettering held by people.  They are internees or relatives of internees and the names are the  concentration camps where they were jailed housed like stray dogs.

There is debate among Nikkei whether “concentration camp” should be replaced for the euphemistic “war relocation center” and “internment camp”.

The Manzanar Committee’s logo: 

It is a barb from a barbed wire fence superimposed on the Japanese flag “hinomaru” ( sun disc).

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