The buildings may be gone, but the cemetery still stands in mute testimony to the fact that men and women lived and died in this inhospitable land.

Only 15 of the 150 people who died at Manzanar were buried here, while most of the others were cremated. Today, only 6 graves remain because the rest of the bodies have been moved closer to their families. People still come and leave tokes of remembrance though, like the paper chains decorating the monument and the doll lying on the bottom row.

The characters on this monument can be translated as "soul consoling tower". On the back, it reads "August 1943, erected by the Manzanar Japanese."