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Today hundreds are gathered at the San Bruno @SFBART station for the unveiling of the Tanforan Assembly Center Memorial—honoring the thousands of Japanese American Bay Area residents incarcerated here during WWII. @KQEDnews #stoprepeatinghistory 
San Bruno’s Tanforan Racetrack, now a mall, was converted into a temporary detention center after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Between April and October 1942, Japanese Americans were forced from their homes around the Bay and incarcerated here for months.
📷: Dorothea Lange
📷: Dorothea Lange
It was just the first stop—After months at Tanforan, Japanese Americans were transferred to internment camps in the interior of the county. Many Bay Area residents were sent to Topaz, in Utah, until the end of the war.
📷 of Topaz: J. William Marriott Library & @DenshoProject
📷 of Topaz: J. William Marriott Library & @DenshoProject
