Internment

Sam, Jacinta, Haya, Abia

 What are the long term
effects of Internment Camps
on survivors?
What are Internment camps?
What are Internment
camps?
- Prisoner camp
- A concentration camp for civilian
citizens of enemies mainly during
the war times.
- Imprison large amounts and groups
of people
- Governments choice
- Forced to do many tiring jobs
- Forced to sin against religions
- Go on for years
Emotional Effects on
Survivors
- Fear, shockness, worrying
- Having to leave their
belongings in the past
- Were put in horrible living
conditions
- Emotions and trauma can
affect their children
Physiological trauma of camp survivors

- Once freed, survivors often set

forth on a journey for a new life
- This leads to Psychological
difficulties
- Survivor syndrome
- Concentration camp syndrome
- PTSD
- Trauma is sometimes passed
down
 Spiritual/Psychological Effects on
Survivors
- Shock, fear, and worry
- Everyday people would be scared because they didn’t know what
was going to happen
- They lived their lives than had it all taken away from them in an
instant, which caused serious trust issues
- no one felt they were worthy enough for anything.
- They had poor housing, a minimum supply of food and water, barely
any privacy and education.
- Survivors were left not knowing what to do with the rest of their lives
because they had been told every single day what to do.
 Physical effects of Internment Camps
Natural:
- Weather and Climate
- Health risks including
heatstroke and
sunburns
- Severe dehydration
due to the amount of
labour that they are
forced to do
- the consumption of
contaminated water
Abuse:
- The worst is when
they don’t comply
with the rules
- Can get tased, beaten
or shot depending on
how severe the
“consequences” are
- Malnutrition
Fact or opinion?
Generational trauma exists

Fact Opinion
 Uyghur camps
- Assimilation of Uyghur people
- Nomadic Turkic people native to Xinjiang
- Many are muslim
- Physical, mental and sexual torture
- China says that “training centres” are to prevent
Islamic extremism
- They deny that these camps exist
- suspected camps have been caught in satellite
images
- files with details of the camps have been found.
 Mihrigul Tursun
- Mihrigul Tursun is a survivor who
talks about her experience
- Went to China to visit her parents
- Police separated her from her
children
- Taken to prison
- Finds out about her dead child
- Taken to a second camp
- She was tortured there
- Bad living conditions
- Saw nine women die
 1,000,000
That’s how many people are estimated to be in Uyghur camps
 Japanese camps in America
- Started in 1941
- Pearl Harbor bombing
- Franklin D Roosevelt was the president of America at
the time
- 60% of the prisoners were american citizens
- Took 4 years to shut down

Japanese camps in Canada

- Started early 1942
- Took away 90% of the Japanese Canadians
- During WWII
- Their past lives belongings were used to be pay for their
punishments
- Spread all around Canada to do numerous jobs
- In 1988 Brian Mulroney the Prime Minister of Canada
apologized for what had happened
 George Takei
A survivor of the Japanese camps
 -George Takei
"I remembered some people who lived across the street from
our home as we were being taken away. When I was a
teenager, I had many after-dinner conversations with my
father about our internment. He told me that after we were
taken away, they came to our house and took everything. We
were literally stripped clean."

"We get to sleep where the horses slept! Fun!”

“We were penniless. Everything had been taken

from us and the hostility was intense.”
 The Holocoust
- Hitler became Germany’s head of state.
- He introduced anti-Semitic laws
- The Nazis believed that Jews were a problem that needed to be removed
- Between 1941 and 1945 (during World War ll)
- Murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe
- At least seventy medical research projects involving cruel and often lethal
experimentation on human subjects
- More than seven thousand victims of such medical experiments have been
documented
- Victims include Jews, Poles, Roma (Gypsies), political prisoners, Soviet
prisoners of war, homosexuals, and Catholic priests
Indigenous Residential Schools
- People Taken away from their families
- They weren’t allowed to contact their
families
- Set up by the Canadian government
to teach Indigenous children
Euro-Canadian ways of living
- Were tortured if they broke a rule
- Were not allowed to speak their
language
- Were not aloud to celebrate their
culture
- At least 150,000 indigenous victims
 Phyllis Webstad
St. Joseph’s Residential School
survivor, and founder of
“Orange Shirt Day”.
 “I never wore it again. I didn't understand why
they wouldn't give it back to me, it was mine! The
color orange has always reminded me of that
and how my feelings didn't matter, how no one
cared and how I felt like I was worth nothing. All
of us little children were crying and no one
cared.”
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