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Manzanar camp is situated at the foot of the Sierra Nevada in California's Owens Valley. It is a former prison camp where captured Japanese soldiers were incarcerated during World War II.
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She is the author of the book "Farewell to Manzanar".
Manzanar, one of the ten internment camps established for Japanese Americans during World War II, closed in November 1945. After the war, the camp was vacant, and the land eventually returned to its original owners, with the camp's buildings being dismantled or moved elsewhere.
It was close on Nov. 21, 1945,
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