The most famous internee on the island was Mary Mallon, a cook better known as Typhoid Mary, a carrier of the disease who was known to have infected dozens, possibly hundreds, of New Yorkers at the time of her quarantine in 1907.
The biggest concern was food; ensuring there was enough food occupied most of the internees' time.
The most common sickness amongst the internees were malaria, malnutrition and its associated diseases, beriberi, and pellagra.
Most of the rest, known as "security internees", are civilians deemed to threaten security.
Almost all of the internees were surely innocent, and most deserved the rights of citizens.
But of all the most famous images of Japanese internment by either internees or government-hired photographers, only Manbo's were in color.
At a three-day event, dozens of internees and their families made what was, for most, their first trip back.
According to Soviet documents declassified in 1990, 21,857 Polish internees and prisoners were executed after 3 April 1940: 14,552 prisoners of war (most or all of them from the three camps) and 7,305 prisoners in western parts of the Byelorussian and Ukrainian SSRs.
This weekend, about 110 internees and the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of internees made what was, for most, the first pilgrimage to what is now the Minidoka Internment National Monument.
