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1 day ago · Although it had over 10,000 inmates at its peak, it was one of the smaller internment camps. It is located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains in California's Owens Valley, between the towns of Lone Pine to the south and Independence to the north, approximately 230 miles (370 km) north of Los Angeles. Manzanar means "apple orchard" in ...
- 814 acres (329 ha)
- Inyo County, California
1 hour ago · Ghetto. A ghetto is a part of a city in which members of a minority group are concentrated, especially as a result of political, social, legal, religious, environmental or economic pressure. [1] Ghettos are often known for being more impoverished than other areas of the city. Versions of such restricted areas have been found across the world ...
1 day ago · Six Romani women in jail, Los Angeles, California, 1940. One of the most enduring persecutions against the Romani was their enslavement. Slavery was widely practiced in medieval Europe, including the territory of present-day Romania from before the founding of the principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia in the 13th–14th centuries.
- 5,255–80,000
- 205,007–825,000 (0.6%)
- 105,000 (0.1%)
- 225,000 (0.4%)
2 hours ago · The Jewish lawyer wrote an article for Jewish News in November in which he accused Israel of causing 'catastrophic mass fatality and untold human suffering of Palestinians.' Amal Clooney is a ...
1 day ago · On November 13, 1971, Betty was abducted and brutally murdered by four young men. Initially met with silence and indifference, her tragic murder resonates loudly today. Betty represents one of almost 1,200 Indigenous women in Canada who have been murdered or gone missing. This is her story.
1 day ago · 2012: In recognition of Jewish American Heritage Month, the DC Public Library to present a lecture entitled “Jewish Civil Life at a Time of Civil War: American Jewry in the Mid-19th Century” during which Dr. Lauren Strauss, assistant professor of History and Judaic Studies at the George Washington University, will discuss the Jewish ...
