Internees roam the desolate Heart Mountain Relocation Center near Cody, Wyoming, in 1942. Photograph by Tom Parker. (BANC PIC 1967.014 v.59 GB:61-PIC)The dust howls, or else settles on everything like morning dew.
Sharing eye-opening records of the tragedy far and wide, the Library has now digitized more than 500,000 materials on Japanese internment, including firsthand accounts and government records. Behind those documents is a tale of evil justified — and what it took to get there.
“The materials we have we consider as evidence,” says Mary Elings, Bancroft’s head of technical services, who has overseen the digitization of Bancroft’s collection of internment-related materials. “It’s part of our job as citizens to understand from where we came so we can hopefully improve where we’re going.”
