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Ancestry.com - Search Military Records

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

Cambridge Digital Library - Voices of civilian internment: WWII Singapore

Camp Harmony: Japanese American Internment and the Puyallup Assembly Center

A book by Louis Fiset.

CSU Japanese American History Digitization Project

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

Densho Digital Archive - Camp Newspaper Collections

Photos, documents, and newspapers that cover a span of history from immigration in the early 1900s through redress in the 1980s with a particular focus on the World War II mass incarceration.

Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project

Organization which maintains digital archive of video oral histories of Japanese-Americans incarcerated or interned during World War II. Includes over 500 hours of interviews.

German American Internee Coalition

Focused on the history of internment of German Americans and Latin Americans during World War II, this site has name lists of over 7,000 civilians forcibly removed from Latin America by the US, interned in the U.S., and/or sent to Germany. Manifests of some of the ships used to transport these prisoners to the U.S. or Germany are included.

German American Internee Coalition

Formed in 2005 by and for German American and Latin American citizens and legal residents who were interned by the United States during World War II.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

World War II - The Internment of German American Civilians

From the Freedom of Information Times.

World War II Internment Camps

From the Handbook of Texas Online.