MAnzanar
One well known internment camp was Manzanar, located two hundred twenty five miles north of Los Angeles, California. This camp was in the middle of a huge dessert with boiling hot summers and bitterly cold winters. It covered six thousand acres of land and had a population of more than ten thousand Japanese-Americans, most of whom were from southern California. In Manzanar, ten thousand people were shoved into five hundred four barracks and endured crowded, unsanitary living conditions. Families had "apartments" there no bigger than four hundred eighty square feet, with partitions and curtains used to provide privacy from other families since there were not real walls between rooms. There was no running water or indoor plumbing in Manzanar and public restrooms had to be shared between many families.