Seen and Unseen: What Dorothea Lange, Toyo Miyatake, and Ansel Adams's Photographs Reveal About the Japanese American Incarceration

by Elizabeth Partridge

Families argued over what to answer. They didn’t know what might happen if parents answered differently than their children. Would the family be separated? It was agonizing to decide. What would the government do with their answers? The consequences were completely unknown, which was terrifying.