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1972 [2][3] Designated LAHCM. September 15, 1976 [4] Manzanar is the site of one of ten American concentration camps, where more than 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II from March 1942 to November 1945. Although it had over 10,000 inmates at its peak, it was one of the smaller internment camps.
Japanese Internment Camps in Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia): [3] Aek Pamienke [nl] (3 camps), Rantau Prapat, North Sumatra. Ambon (Ambon Island) Ambarawa (2 camps), Central Java. Balikpapan POW camp, Balikpapan (Dutch Borneo) Bangkong, Semarang, Central Java. Banjoebiroe (Semarang) [nl], Central Java.
Coordinates: 31.142672°N 121.433365°E. Lunghua Civil Assembly Centre was one of the internment camps established by the Empire of Japan in Shanghai for European and American citizens, who had been resident under Japanese occupation since December 1941. Many had formerly lived in Shanghai within the Shanghai International Settlement before its ...
These camps often held German and Italian detainees in addition to Japanese Americans: [1] Fort McDowell/Angel Island, California. Camp Blanding, Florida. Camp Forrest, Tennessee. Camp Livingston, Louisiana. Camp Lordsburg, New Mexico. Camp McCoy, Wisconsin. Florence, Arizona. Fort Bliss, New Mexico and Texas.
The former Japanese internment camps became safe havens. [11] [12] [13] In December 1945, 3,800 camp survivors, including 1,200 children, were repatriated to the Netherlands on board the SS New Amsterdam. The children were weak after spending years in the Japanese internment camps. Measles broke out aboard the ship, and many of the children died.
Japanese Americans were initially barred from U.S. military service, but by 1943, they were allowed to join, with 20,000 serving during the war. Over 4,000 students were allowed to leave the camps to attend college. Hospitals in the camps recorded 5,981 births and 1,862 deaths during incarceration.
t. e. The Japanese Empire occupied the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) during World War II from March 1942 until after the end of the war in September 1945. In May 1940, Germany occupied the Netherlands, and martial law was declared in the Dutch East Indies. Following the failure of negotiations between the Dutch authorities and the Japanese ...
Amache National Historic Site, formally the Granada War Relocation Center but known to the internees as Camp Amache (pronounced a-ma-chee), was a concentration camp for Japanese Americans in Prowers County, Colorado. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Japanese Americans on the West Coast were rounded up and sent ...