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50 Objects / Stories of the American Japanese Incarceration (Facebook)

Ancestry.com - Search Military Records

Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

Camp Harmony: Japanese American Internment and the Puyallup Assembly Center

A book by Louis Fiset.

Colorado State Archives - Amache Japanese Internment Camp

CSU Japanese American History Digitization Project

A Collaborative Digital History Project of the California State University Libraries.

Densho Digital Repository

Hear the story of the Japanese American incarceration experience from those who lived it, and find thousands of historic photographs, documents, newspapers, letters and other primary source materials from immigration to the WWII incarceration and its aftermath.

Densho: Japanese American Incarceration and Japanese Internment

Densho documents the testimonies of Japanese Americans who were unjustly incarcerated during World War II before their memories are extinguished. We offer these irreplaceable firsthand accounts, coupled with historical images and teacher resources, to explore principles of democracy and promote equal justice for all.

George and Frank C. Hirahara Photograph Collection, 1943-1945

Digital images from Heart Mountain Internment Camp. Located in Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections in the Terrell Library at Washington State University.

Heart Mountain Interpretive Center (Facebook)

Heart Mountain Interpretive Center, Heart Mountain Foundation, Wyoming

The Heart Mountain, Wyoming Foundation, HMWF, has worked to preserve the site of the Heart Mountain internment camp located near towns of Powell and Cody, Wyoming.

Internment of Japanese Americans (Wikipedia)

The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States was the forced relocation and incarceration during World War II of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry who lived on the Pacific coast in camps in the interior of the country.

Ireizō | National Names Monument Honoring Persons of Japanese Ancestry Incarcerated in the U.S. During WWII

Memorial listing of the names of over 125,000+ persons of Japanese descent who were incarcerated in the United States during World War II by the U.S. Army, Department of Justice, and War Relocation Authority (WRA).

Japanese American Incarceration Collection - Washington State University Libraries Digital Collections

Japanese American Internment | National Archives

To commemorate the 75th Anniversary of FDR

Japanese American Relocation Digital Archive (JARDA) — Calisphere

The JARDA project began in 1998 with the goal of providing a single point of entry to materials held by California institutions on the subject of Japanese American relocation and incarceration during World War II. Historically, these materials had been heavily requested, but difficult to access since they were scattered across many California archives, libraries, oral history programs, and museums. A dedicated digitization project was undertaken by several institutions statewide, and the first version of the site was launched in November 2000. Now part of Calisphere, JARDA continues to grow as institutions continue to digitize and add content on the subject.

Japanese Canadian internment (Wikipedia)

Japanese Canadian Internment refers to the detainment of Japanese Canadians following the Japanese invasion of Hong Kong and Malaya and attack on Pearl Harbor, and the subsequent Canadian declaration of war on Japan during World War II.

Japanese-American Internee File, 1942 - 1946

From the National Archives. Personal descriptive data about Japanese-Americans evacuated from the states of Washington, Oregon, and California to ten relocation centers operated by the War Relocation Authority during World War II. Each record represents an individual internee and includes the internee's name, relocation project and assembly center to which assigned, previous address, birthplace of parents, occupation of father, education, foreign residence & more.

Japantown Atlas

The Japantown Atlas maps nearly two dozen communities in California where Japanese Americans lived and worked prior to World War II. Drawing from historic maps, business directories, and photos, we show a variety of Japantowns as they existed in 1940. Our project both memorializes the Issei (first generation Japanese immigrants) in their first 20-50 years in America - the businesses, churches and schools they established - and documents the hometowns that 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry were forced to leave behind during their incarceration in "Assembly Centers" and "Internment Camps" during World War II (1942-1946).

The Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement: A Digital Archive

The Bancroft Library - University of California, Berkeley. Starting in August 2011 and ending in March 2014, the project digitized nearly 100,000 original manuscript items and made them available on the Online Archive of California. A thematic website was designed and created to lead users to the data by various means, including textual searches using standardized vocabularies and visual mechanisms such as GIS tagging and interactive maps. The digital archive allows users to explore these primary source materials and connects them to related resources. As one of the Bancroft Library's most heavily used collections, this project ensures the long-term preservation of the original materials while providing unprecedented access through a central portal.

The World War II Japanese American Incarceration: An Annotated Bibliography of the Materials Available in the California State Archives