Train Ride to the Unknown 1c

Japanese American National Museum, Gift of Mori Shimada (92.10.2AT)

This object is part of the story , which is about Migration.

Heart Mountain, Migration, Train Ride to the Unknown

Look carefully at this photograph taken by Mori Shimada at Heart Mountain in 1945, when World War II was coming to an end and Japanese Americans were beginning to leave camp.

  • Have you ever been on a train with so many other people? What was it like?
  • What do you think the weather was like on that day?