
WHEN: August 10, 1942 - October 28, 1945
POST OFFICE: None
POPULATION: 13,000
SUMMARY: Minidoka primarily incarcerated Japanese Americans originating from Oregon and Washington, although a small number came from Alaska. Minidoka is located in southern Idaho.
"When we first arrived here we almost cried, and thought that this is the land God had forgotten. The vast expanse of nothing but sagebrush and dust, a landscape so alien to our eyes, and a desolate, woe-begone feeling of being so far removed from home and fireside bogged us down mentally, as well as physically." Another evacuee wrote, "We were simply and utterly disgusted with... the camp... we found no running hot water, no sewer system, a hot, dry, dusty climate. For how long would we have to endure these conditions?" Incarceree
The population reached its highest point at 9,397. However, over the course of time, more than 13,000 Japanese Americans passed through the camp.
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