In the wake of wartime panic that followed the Japanese attack of Pearl
Harbor, more than 100,000 Japanese Americans residing along the West
Coast of the United States were uprooted from their homes and their
communities and banished to internment camps throughout the country.
Through personal documents, art, and propaganda, Only What We Could
Carry expresses through words, art, and haunting recollections, the
fear, confusion and anger of the camp experience. The only anthology of
its kind,
Only What We Could Carry is an emotional and intellectual testament to
the dignity, spirit and strength of the Japanese American internees.