Internment Videos


My Face Was My Crime, My Heritage was on Trial
This is the opening segment for the film “My Face Was My Crime.”
Jimi Yamaichi, 2002, shares his vision of a visitor center along Highway 139 on part of what was once the Tule Lake Internment – Segration camp. Hiroshi Kashiwagi, 2003, recalls beautiful skies that he wished he could take photos of but cameras were not allowed in the camp. A scene from the Tule Lake Committee’s 2006 Pilgrimage and a 2007 pan of the area where the camp once was are included.

Other Video Chapters
FarmingBarracksJail-StockadeCamp LifeFood in Camp
Sake-Coal-CrossAfter SegregationRemnantsTowers and Fences
Parks & MonumentsLatrine LifePilgrimage


Barracks 2704 – rooms C, D and E.
Jimi Yamaichi was one of eleven family members that arrived at Tule Lake Segregation Center from Heart Mountain, Wyoming Jimi did not want to come to Tule Lake but he did because his father felt the family must stay together. They lived in barracks 2704 rooms C, D and E. 20′ x 25′ rooms were intended for seven, 20′ x 20′ rooms were for five and 20′ x 16′ rooms were for four. His sisters lived in one room, his parents in the middle room and the boys lived in the other room.

Tule Lake Committee map of the Internment – Segregation Center

tule lake pilgrimage bus tour map for 2006.tule lake internment - segregation center layout

Nearly 30,000 Japanese-Americans were imprisoned here.


map of tule lake internment - segregation center used bytule lake committee bus tour in 2006

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