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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).

List of concentration and internment camps (Wikipedia)

The Canadian Encyclopedia - Internment

Internment, detention or confinement of a people during the First and Second World Wars.

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

theislandwiki - List of deportees to internment camps

Channel Islanders deported to internment camps in 1942 and 1943.

Topaz Japanese American Relocation Center Digital Collection

From the Utah State University (USU) Digital History Collections.

Wartime internment camps in Australia

From the National Archives of Australia.

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.

WWII Japanese American Internment and Relocation Records in the National Archives

WWII Japanese American Internment History Page (Facebook)