Uploaded September 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This home movie documenting incarcerees leaving the Heart Mountain concentration camp was shot by Eiichi Edward Sakauye, a pioneering San Jose farmer who became the camp’s agriculture superintendent. Many of the Heart Mountain concentration camp’s 10,767 incarcerees came from California, Washington, and Oregon.
Credit: Japanese American National Museum, Gift of Eiichi Edward Sakauye, 96.147.1
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This video is included as part of JANM’s Exploring America’s Concentration Camps website, an online resource for learning about the forced removal and confinement of more than 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry in American-style concentration camps during World War II: eacc.janm.org
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This home movie documenting incarcerees leaving the Heart Mountain concentration camp was shot by Eiichi Edward Sakauye, a pioneering San Jose farmer who became the camp’s agriculture superintendent. Many of the Heart Mountain concentration camp’s 10,767 incarcerees came from California, Washington, and Oregon.
Credit: Japanese American National Museum, Gift of Eiichi Edward Sakauye, 96.147.1
Moving images from the Japanese American National Museum’s collection may not be reproduced, distributed, or displayed without a completed license agreement and payment of the appropriate use fees. Fees apply to one time use per film distributed in licensed format, unless otherwise authorized in the license agreement. For more information, please contact collections@janm.org.
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This video is included as part of JANM’s Exploring America’s Concentration Camps website, an online resource for learning about the forced removal and confinement of more than 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry in American-style concentration camps during World War II: eacc.janm.org
Japanese American National Museum
100 N. Central Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
janm.org
Stay connected with us!
Follow JANM on Instagram: instagram.com/jamuseum
Follow JANM on Facebook: facebook.com/jamuseum
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