A year after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, 16-year-old Takashi Hoshizaki and his family were moved from their home in Southern California by the federal government to Heart Mountain Relocation Center, an internment camp in northwest Wyoming.

For the next two years, the family of eight lived in two rooms in a barracks, Hoshizaki says. Each room had a single light and coal heater, and Hoshizaki, his parents and five siblings slept on Army cots with thin mattresses and blankets. They ate in a communal mess hall and took showers without much privacy.