Visitors center opens at former U.S. camp for Japanese Americans

Visitors center opens at former U.S. camp for Japanese Americans

MANZANAR, United States - An opening ceremony was held April 24 for a visitors' center built at the former Manzanar War Relocation Center in central California to mark the history of internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. More than 1,000 people including Japanese Americans who had been forced to live in the internment camp, attended the ceremony for the opening of the Manzanar National Historic Site Interpretive Center.

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