In-depth online exhibit of the history (from notification to the move to Minidoka) and daily camp life of Japanese-Americans in this WW II relocation assembly camp. Photos, eyewitness accounts, issues of camp newspaper, WRA regulations, staff memos, correspondence.
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).
Newspaper coverage of the day, PowerPoint presentations, Dorothea Lange's documentary photos, links.
Companion website to a PBS documentary of the experiences of Japanese American children interned behind barbed wire during World War II.
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.
Resources about the WW II Japanese-American relocation and internment experience.
Collection of contemporary photographs of the Japanese-Americans in the process of being interned.
The drafting of internees out of camps and into the Army; some resisted and went to prison. Excerpt from forthcoming book.
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."
Cleveland-based artist/photographer presents art and research about the WW II internment of Japanese-Americans.
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