Memories of the Japanese Internment Camp: ‘My Father Literally Had to Carry Death’

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<p>Fear after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor led to the signing of the <a class="Link" href="https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/executive-order-9066" target="_blank" >Executive Order 9066</a> on 19 February 1942, which allowed the forced removal of all people of Japanese descent from their homes on the West Coast of the United States and their transfer to assembly centres and concentration camps.</p>The 10 concentration camps that…

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During the commemoration at the Indies Monument in the heart of Kaatsheuvel on Saturday, Alderman Loes Heijs-Schouten told the story of her father, who was interned in a Japanese camp during the occupation. "Preventing people from disappearing into silence and statistics."