USA TANFORAN MEMORIAL

Tanforan Memorial in memory of incarcerees of Tanforan detention center

epa10144305 Tanforan camp survivors (L-R), Satoshi Sekigahama, Kiyoshi (Jim) Sekigahama, Yukimi Sekigahama Nomura, and Paul Isamu Nomura, pose for photos with the Tanforan Memorial bronze statue based on photographs taken by Dorothea Lange in 1942 of young children dressed in their Sunday best on the way to Tanforan, during a ribbon cutting cermony just outside the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) station in San Bruno, California, USA, 27 August 2022 (issued on 28 August 2022). Tanforan was a former racetrack converted into a detention center from April through October 1942 during World War II. Tanforan was one of 17 temporary 'assembly centers' set up to house the approximately 112,000 people of Japanese descent (the vast majority of whom were American citizens) who were unjustly ordered to leave their homes while the government built more permanent incarceration camps. EPA/JOHN G. MABANGLO

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