Thanks for the link. The photos and quotes are poignant, particularly so since I visited the Heart Mountain Camp and Museum in Wyoming two summers ago.
Heart Mountain was one of the internment camps for West Coast Japanese-Americans during World War II. While these people were told by the government they were in a “Relocation Center,” it was a concentration camp, pure and simple.
The two buildings in the first photo were the camp hospital; the second was the camp boiler room. They are the only buildings left standing at the camp. The hospital serviced over 11,000 people when the camp's population was at its peak. There is a museum exhibit that is excellent, giving a real feeling of what life was like for these people.
There were ten of these concentration camps located in the interior of the country away from the "West Coast Exclusion Zone" that held about 115,000 Japanese-Americans. Before it closed Heart Mountain peaked at a population of almost 11,000, making it Wyoming's third-largest city at the time.
Along with all the sad stories I read in the museum, there was one story of a Japanese farmer who sold his farm to his neighbor before going to Heart Mountain. After the war the farmer sold it back to him for exactly what he paid. A man of honor and compassion.
Heart Mountain Internment Camp Hospital Heart Mountain Internment Camp Boiler Room (yes, the smoke stack really leans)