Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston, whose acclaimed memoir “Farewell to Manzanar” recounted her childhood years in a crowded, barbed wire-fringed detention center, bringing renewed attention to the ...

Interpreting Manzanar’s history is the culmination of a lifelong passion for Lynch. She checked out library books about Japanese culture at a very early age, and when she was 9, the movie “Farewell to ...

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston’s death was confirmed by family members and representatives of HarperCollins, which published the 50th anniversary edition of “Farewell to Manzanar.” Her son ...

"Manzanar In the early part of World War II, 110,000 persons of Japanese ancestry were interned in relocation centers by executive order NO. 9066, issued on February 19, 1942. Manzanar, the first ...