Don't miss Jack's account of his ordeal. Even though they escaped the Nazis at first, Lobel and her family were eventually caught and sent to concentration camps. Her story is filled with courage, heart and hope. Anti-Asian sentiment was strong, and the US government ordered Japanese immigrants and American citizens of Japanese origin to enter internment camps for the duration of the war. In the privacy of his journal, he expresses his true feelings, from boredom to anger.
Nothing is called what it is.
I mean this guy is the project director. Ben talks about the irony of celebrating Independence Day in the camp, reports with disgust on a shooting by the Military Police, and tells how the Army recruits soldiers from among the internees. Author Barry Denenberg doesn't make Ben a passive or willing observer. Ben considers himself an American, and he bitterly resents his unfair imprisonment. Some of the images come from a famous collection by Toyo Miyatake, a professional photographer who documented his own time in an internment camp.