JAPANESE & JEWISH

BY: KATIE BALARIE

Japanese internment camps were formed because of the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The U.S. thought that they might be spies, so they put all of the Japanese, most of which were citizens, into internment camps.

Jewish concentration camps were formed because of Hitler. Hitler thought that Jewish people were different and he wanted them all gone. So he put them all into concentration camps where he later tortured and murdered them.

Two months after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor(February 19, 1942), 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 the 10 internment camps located across the country.

Between 1933 and 1945, Germany established about 20,000 camps to imprison millions of victims. These camps were used for a range of purposes including forced-labor camps, transit camps which served as temporary way stations, and killing centers built primarily or exclusively for mass murder.

JAPANESE INTERNMENT CAMPS

• Around 17,000 Japanese Americans fought for the U.S. in World War II.
• The government called the Internment Camps "Relocation Centers" as well as many other names
• After they got out of the Internment Camps, they were given $20,000 and a train ticket home
• The Japanese Americans weren't treated fairly, but they made the best of it.

JEWISH CONCENTRATION CAMPS

• Around 1.1 million Children were murdered during the Holocaust
• Around 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust.
• 6 million of those people were Jewish
• The Nazis used the term "The Final Solution" to refer to their plan to kill all Jewish
• The name "Nazi" is short for Nationalsozialistishe Deutsch

SIMILARITIES

• They were both prison-like camps
• They were both innocent people who had done nothing wrong
• The camps were both discriminating against a certain race or ethnicity

We can prevent this from happening again by treating people fairly and and avoiding discrimination.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Photos: Haiku Deck
• Information: Google
• Articles: Wartime Mistakes, Peacetime Apologies

I hope you enjoyed my presentation on Japanese Internment Camps and Jewish Concentration Camps!