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  1. May 1, 2024 · The first internment camp in operation was Manzanar, located in east-central California. Between 1942 and 1945 a total of 10 camps were opened, holding approximately 120,000 Japanese Americans for varying periods of time in California, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, and Arkansas. Japanese American internment, the forced relocation by the U.S ...

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      Nisei, (Japanese: “second-generation”), son or daughter of...

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      Manzanar War Relocation Center, internment facility for...

  2. May 13, 2024 · Includes "... the text of 10 key primary documents--from Executive Order 9066, which authorized the internment camps, to first-person accounts of the internment experience ...

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  4. May 21, 2024 · Digitized archive of the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study, a research project initiated in 1942 at UC Berkeley. It aimed to document and examine the mass internment of Japanese Americans by embedding Nisei social science students recruited from the Berkeley campus into selected internment sites.

    • Jennifer Dorner
    • 2014
  5. A total of 227 Japanese men, women, and children were transported directly to the Owens Valley in California’s desert county, to a place that would come to be known as Manzanar, the first internment camp.

  6. 6 days ago · The Japanese camp newspapers are online and in microfilm: Library of Congress Japanese-American Internment Camp Newspapers, 1942 to 1946. Archives Unbound Japanese-American Relocation Camp Newspapers: Perspectives on Day-to-Day Life . Less user friendly than the LoC collection above

    • Schaffer Library
    • 2011
  7. May 9, 2024 · Japanese American Internment Camp Newspapers from 1942-1946. Produced by the Japanese-Americans interned at concentration camps around the country during World War II, these newspapers provide a unique look into the daily lives of the people who were held in these camps.

  8. 5 days ago · Located behind a frail barbed wire fence fifteen miles out from the remote town of Delta, Utah, the Topaz internment camp is utterly isolated from the rest of the state. Topaz was an American concentration camp where approximately 9,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans primarily from California’s Bay Area were held during World War II. Open from September 1942 until October 1945, daily life ...

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