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Top: Society: History: By Time Period: Twentieth Century: Wars and Conflicts: World War II: Regional: United States: Relocation and Internment: WRA Relocation Camps (49)
Army Shootings - Little-known incidents and accounts of US Army shootings of Japanese-Americans interned in relocation camps during WW II (in one case, a $1.00 charge was assessed against the shooter to recover the cost of the bullet). Bibliography and Links - Relocation - Materials on the evacuation and relocation of Japanese-Americans at Las Positas Community College, Calif. Camp Granada - Well-captioned photos of life in this WW II Japanese-American relocation camp. From the Colorado State Archives. Internment and Evacuation of San Francisco Japanese - 1942 - Newspaper coverage of the day, PowerPoint presentations, Dorothea Lange's documentary photos, links. Children of the Camps - PBS - Companion website to a PBS documentary of the experiences of Japanese American children interned behind barbed wire during World War II. Conscience and the Constitution - Video documentary on the Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee, the largest organized resistance to the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. Primary documents, study guide, news updates. Heart Mountain, Wyoming - WRA Japanese-American Relocation Center - Profiles Heart Mountain, one of 10 relocation centers in which over 110,000 Americans of Japanese descent were interned during World War II. Japanese-American National Museum - Resources about the WW II Japanese-American relocation and internment experience. Dorothea Lange's Photographs of the Japanese-American Evacuation - Collection of contemporary photographs of the Japanese-Americans in the process of being interned. Further and Further Away - Covers the relocation of San Diego's Nisei (Japanese-American) Community, 1942. Free to Die for Their Country - The drafting of internees out of camps and into the Army; some resisted and went to prison. Excerpt from forthcoming book. The Japanese American Internment - GeoCities Site - A rich, broad collection focusing on individual experiences compiled by C. John Yu, who notes of the perceived threat that triggered the tragedy: "In the entire course of the war, 10 people were convicted of spying for Japan, all of whom were Caucasian." The Japanese American Internment - Australian Site - A collection of material focusing on individual experiences of Japanese-American internees, compiled by C. John Yu. Masumi Hayashi Photography - Cleveland-based artist/photographer presents art and research about the WW II internment of Japanese-Americans. Japanese-American Internment Camps - Holocaust Net Links - About.com links. Japanese-American Orphans Evicted From Orphanages - Orphanages packed orphans of Japanese ancestry off to government relocation camps during WW II. CNN article. Joseph Yoshisuke Kurihara - How a Hawaiian-born American citizen, patriot, and US Army WW I veteran decided to become one of a group of WW II Japanese-American relocation camp interns to renounce his American citizenship. Manzanar: America's Concentration Camp - A camp where Americans of Japanese descent were interned during the war because of rampant anti-Japanese fears in the United States during World War Two. Life in Camp Harmony - A first-hand account of a little girl's impressions at being trapped behind a fence guarded by machine guns during the WW II evacuation of Japanese-Americans. Excerpt from book "Nisei Daughter" by Monica Itoi Stone. A More Perfect Union - Japanese Americans and the U.S. Constitution - Focuses on the experience of Japanese Americans who were placed in detention camps in World War II. Materials Related to the Japanese American Incarceration - Catalog of significant WW II relocation document collection (focused on the Camp Harmony and Fort Minidoka) at the University of Washington Libraries. Some documents available on microfilm through Interlibrary loan. Tule Lake Internment Camp - Information and resources on this WWII Japanese-American internment camp, located in Tule Lake, California. The Smith Collection Scans - Scans of broadsides and correspondence relating to the evacuation and resettlement of Japanese-Americans during WWII from materials at the Robert E. Kennedy Library at CalPoly. Poignant Memories - Article subtitled "Relocation to internment camp was a nightmare for Japanese-American couple" by Stefanie Asin, Houston Chronicle. Relocation of Japanese-Americans - 1943 War Relocation Authority pamphlet covering background, program, evacuees, students, evacuee property. Image of original cover. Photos. Smithsonian: A More Perfect Union - Synopsis of Japanese-American Internment exhibition that "celebrates the Constitution but goes on to reveal how in a time of grave national crisis, racial fear and prejudice swept away the freedoms it guarantees." Tule Lake and Topaz Relocation Camp Photos - Japanese-American Internment in WW II online photographic exhibit. Hosted by the University of Utah. The Treatment of Japanese Americans During World War II - The Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute presents an examination of Supreme Court cases relevant to the West Coast relocation program with historical background and social environment. Notes, unit test, and list of materials for classroom use. War Relocation Authority Camps in Arizona, 1942-1946 - Images depict the daily life of Japanese-American interns. Conscience and the Constitution - The story of the young Japanese Americans who refused to be drafted from an American concentration camp in World War II. Biographies, timeline, documents, letters, PBS film review. WCCA Operations Manual, Part XXXV - List of rules in force at assembly centers used in the evacuation of Japanese-Americans from the West Coast in WW II on their way to internment at relocation camps. Wendi's Grandfather - An Internment Experience - A high school student's report on her grandfather's experience as an Japanese-American intern in a WW II relocation camp. Executive Order 9066 - Information on an illustrated book about the internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans. Suffering Under a Great Injustice - The Library of Congress presents Ansel Adams's photographs of Japanese American internment at Manzanar.
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