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Manzanar war relocation center was one of ten camps where japanese american citizens and resident japanese aliens were incarcerated during.

Map japanese internment camps. To view some basic data on any of the ten concentration camps that housed japanese americans during world war ii click on the name of the camp. The entries that appear in these pages were taken from japanese american history. An a to z reference fr om 1868 to the present brian niiya editor.

Fact on file inc 1993. The internment of japanese americans in the united states during world war ii was the forced relocation and incarceration in concentration camps in the western interior of the country of between 110000 and 120000 people of japanese ancestry most of whom lived on the pacific coastsixty two percent of the internees were united states citizens. These actions were ordered by president franklin.

This is an incomplete list of japanese run military prisoner of war and civilian internment and concentration camps during world war iisome of these camps were for prisoners of war pow only. Some also held a mixture of pows and civilian internees while others held solely civilian internees. Posts about japanese internment written by daniel brownstein.

The mosaic of ethnicities in the united states today appears so inclusive and diverse that echoes of the states sanctioning of the forcible spatial segregation of one ethnic group japanese americanswould seem impossibly remote in time and culture until quite recently. Japanese american internment the forced relocation by the us. Government of thousands of japanese americans to detention camps during world war ii.

Between 1942 and 1945 a total of 10 camps were opened holding approximately 120000 japanese americans in california arizona wyoming colorado utah and arkansas. Internment and detention facilities overview. What follows is general information about many of the primary us.

Government internment camps and detention facilities in which persons of german ancestry from the united states and latin america were interned during world war ii. The oregon plan implemented in may 1942 led to the organization of the first japanese american farm labor camp during world war ii. The camp in malheur county housed 350 japanese americans who had been incarcerated in oregon by executive order 9066 in the months after japan bombed pearl harbor.

In 1942 the united states government ordered more than 110000 men women and children to leave their homes and detained them in remote military style camps.