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Minidoka Internment Camp

1942

Minidoka Internment Camp

During World War II, the Minidoka War Relocation Center in the Idaho desert held more than 9,000 Japanese Americans forcibly removed from their West Coast homes. Families lived in difficult conditions behind barbed wire while their loyalty was questioned. The Minidoka camp and its legacy are remembered as a profound violation of civil liberties.