Women in the Japanese "relocation camps" in the United States had to deal with the same issues as the rest of their family -- loss of their savings, businesses, homes, farms -- living with barbed wire fences and military guards -- sleeping on straw mattresses and dealing with extremes of temperatures and other primitive living conditions.
Because women largely were responsible for traditional housekeeping chores, even in the camps, it largely fell on the women to deal with primitive laundry and meal preparation conditions. Clothing could rarely be purchased except occasionally through the Sears Roebuck or Montgomery Ward catalogs. Women had to nurse their children through diseases that were attributable to camp conditions, such as dysentery.
