Vandalized Headstones

Identifier

http://dp.la/api/items/299e151177f85b49f5e91fe28902085c

Title

Vandalized Headstones

Date

1945

Description

Japanese-American cemeteries, deeply personal symbols to tightly-knit families, were desecrated. Headstones were toppled over and anti-Japanese epithets were scrawled on tombs.

Subject

Topaz Relocation Center (Topaz, Utah)
Japanese Americans
World War II--United States
World War II
Vandalism
Cemeteries

Source

Mountain West Digital Library

Relation

http://content.lib.utah.edu/utils/getthumbnail/collection/ushs-KUED/id/28

Type

image

References

http://utah-primoprod.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=MWDL&afterPDS=true&docId=digcoll_uuu_11ushs-KUED/28

Citation

“Vandalized Headstones,” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed June 9, 2026, https://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/8070.

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