Grants To Preserve WWII History
National Park Service chief Jonathan Jarvis announced 20 grants yesterday, totaling over $2.8M to help preserve and interpret the World War II confinement sites of Japanese Americans. Over 120,000 Japanese Americans (two-thirds of them American citizens) were put in prison by the US after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Some of the grants will go toward: a traveling exhibit to tell the lesser known story of the former Tuna Canyon Detention Station in California; the immediate stabilization of a root cellar that the incarcerated used to store fruit and vegetables that they raised at Heart Mountain, WY; and the creation of an online archive that will include over 1,300 digitally scanned documents and photographs related to the former Rohwer incarceration site in Arkansas.
