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Civilian Assembly Centers were temporary camps, frequently located at horse tracks, where Japanese Americans were sent as they were removed from their communities. Eventually, most were sent to Relocation Centers which are now most commonly known as internment camps or incarceration centers.
The Gila River War Relocation Center was an internment camp built by the War Relocation Authority (WRA) for the internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War. The Gila River War Relocation Memorial is located at Indian Route 24, Sacaton, Az.
Toyo's Camera: Japanese American History During WWII: 2009 Junichi Suzuki Unfinished Business: 1985 Steven Okazaki: The Untold Story: Internment of Japanese Americans in Hawai‘i: 2012 Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i When You're Smiling: The Deadly Legacy of Internment: 1999 Janice D. Tanaka Winter in My Soul: 1986 Bob Nellis, KTWO
Nearly 80 years after the end of World War II, a site in Colorado that once held thousands of Japanese Americans opened its doors this week as the country’s newest national park.
Eventually, most of the Japanese Americans were sent to Relocation Centers, also known as internment camps. Detention camps housed Nikkei who the government considered disruptive as well as Nikkei who the government believed were of special interest. When most of the Assembly Centers closed, they became training camps for US troops.
Camp Harmony was established in May 1942, shortly after the attack on Pearl Harbor and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's subsequent Executive Order 9066, which authorized the eviction of Japanese Americans from the West Coast. The location for the assembly center was on and around the Western Washington Fairgrounds in Puyallup, Washington. It ...
This is a list of inmates of Topaz War Relocation Center, an American concentration camp in Utah used during World War II to hold people of Japanese descent. Karl Ichiro Akiya (1909–2001), a writer and political activist. [1]: 143 Richard Aoki (1938–2009), an American civil rights activist. [2]
Some remained in the relocation centers until March 1946. In addition 4,500 were arrested by the Justice Department and held in internment camps, such as Santa Fe, New Mexico. 2,500 were also held at the family camp in Crystal City, Texas.