Venice commemorates 1942 Japanese Internment
The Venice community will commemorate the 69th anniversary of the beginning of the WWII Japanese Internment, Monday, when more than 100,000 Japanese Americans living on the West Coast were forced to relocate from their homes to internment camps in April 1942.
Many of the Japanese-Americans had to report to the “Civil Control Station” in Venice, where they were then transferred to Northern California. They were placed in the camps from 1942 to 1946.
The Venice community will have a groundbreaking ceremony for The Venice Japanese American Memorial Marker at 10 a.m. Speakers will include former Manzanar internee Arnold Maeda, L.A. Councilman Bill Rosendahl and Venice Neighborhood Council President Linda Lucks.
The memorial marker will be located at the corner of Venice and Lincoln, which is near the “Civil Control Station.”
The Japanese-Americans were detained as a result of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. President Franklin D. Roosevelt approved the internment with Executive Order 9066. This permitted the military to exclude people of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast, with the exception of those in the camps.
