Camp Quote by Jane Seymour

My mother's family was among the 120,000 people of Japanese descent on the West Coast who were dispatched to internment camps during World War II.

— Michiko Kakutani

I was six months old at the time that I was taken, with my mother and father, from Sacramento, California, and placed in internment…

— Anonymous

My father was a Japanese prisoner of war, a survivor of the Thai-Burma Death Railway, built by a quarter of a million slave labourers…

— Richard Flanagan

Most Japanese-Americans have that legacy. The camp experience is something of a calling card between them. They say, 'So, where were you interned?'

— Tamlyn Tomita

I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.

— F. Sionil Jose

I had spent three years in jails and prisons, and then all of a sudden I'm in Japan in this dojo. It was just…

— Frank Shamrock

I've ended up in prison a number of times, once in Cambodia, once in Cuba - for hours rather than days.

— Emily Maitlis

I remember the people I knew in prison; I was very fortunate to know them - they came from 1910, 1920, 1930.

— Gregory Corso

I was in the U.S. about 15 years. Especially in New York. And then I came back to Japan.

— Yayoi Kusama

When I grew up, my auntie was in prison.

— Yo Gotti

My parents are Vietnamese refugees; they left Vietnam after the war. They were part of the boat people, and they ended up in a…

— Hong Chau

My parents came to this country after World War II, Jews from Czechoslovakia who had survived Auschwitz and Dachau. They settled with my sister…

— Julie Salamon