Damaged Headstones

Identifier

http://dp.la/api/items/77d05f9e27db3f22a34273977f0cc49c

Title

Damaged 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
Japanese Americans--California--1940-1950
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/103

Type

image

References

http://utah-primoprod.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?vid=MWDL&afterPDS=true&docId=digcoll_uuu_11ushs-KUED/103

Citation

“Damaged Headstones,” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed September 9, 2026, https://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/8494.

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