Two months after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 ordering all Japanese-Americans to evacuate the West Coast. This resulted in the relocation of approximately 120,000 people, many of whom were American citizens, to one of 10 internment camps located across the country. The relocation of Japanese-Americans into internment camps during World War II was one of the most flagrant violations of civil liberties in American history. …show more content…
Janet Daijogo was born on March 21, 1937 in San Francisco, California She was interned at Topaz, Utah from the time she was five to eight years old. In an interview she was asked what her first impression of Topaz was. She replied with, “Waking up we were covered with sand because there had been a dust storm and the sand had blown in through the windows because there were no windows. The glass hadn’t been put in yet. That was my first memory of waking up in this strange place that was to be our home for three years.” According to Janet who was in a camp from five to eight years old says how the living conditions were not the best because it was messing in the morning because of the