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"I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps
and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people."
"Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part
of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp."
"But when we came out of camp, that's when I first realized that being in camp,
that being Japanese-American, was something shameful."
— actor George Takei [b. 1937]
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Non-Fiction Books - General
 | "Behind Barbed Wire: German Prisoner of War Camps In Minnesota During World War II" [1998] by Anita Albrecht Buck North Star Press of St. Cloud 8¾x5¾ pb [6/98] for $14.95 |
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"UnCivil Liberties: Italian Americans Under Siege During World War II" [rev 2000, orig 1990] by Stephen Fox Universal Publrs 8¼x5½ pb [2/2000] for $29.95 |
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"Heart Mountain: Life In Wyoming's Concentration Camp" [2000] by Mike Mackey Endeavor/Western History Publns 9x6 pb [4/2000] for $15.95 |
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"Behind Barbed Wire: The Story of Japanese-American Internment During World War II" [age 4-8; 2002] by Lila Perl Benchmark Books 9¾x8½ library hardcover [9/2002] for $37.07 |
 | "Guests Behind The Barbed Wire: German POWs In America - A True Story of Hope & Friendship" [2007] by Ruth Beaumont Cook Crane Hill Publrs 7½x5¼ hardcover [4/2007] out of print/used |
Personal Justice Denied, the report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC) which provided a thorough account of the relocation
http://www.amazon.com/Looking-Like-Enemy-Imprisonment-Internment/dp/0939165538/
http://www.amazon.com/Japanese-American-Internment-Cornerstones-Freedom/dp/0531186903/
http://www.amazon.com/Inside-Americas-Concentration-Camps-Internment/dp/155652806X/
http://www.amazon.com/Curious-Cage-Japanese-Internment-1943-1945/dp/1550391240/
http://www.amazon.com/Anniversary-Commemorative-Flying-Column-1945-1995/dp/0964515008/
http://www.amazon.com/Japanese-American-Internment-History-Firsthand/dp/0737704136/
http://www.amazon.com/Life-Japanese-American-Internment-People/dp/1560063459/
http://www.amazon.com/Voices-Camps-Internment-Japanese-Americans/dp/0531111792/
http://www.amazon.com/View-Within-Japanese-Internment-1942-1945/dp/0934052212/
http://www.amazon.com/Enemy-Subject-No-20-Internment-Biography/dp/0750909587/
http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Rockies-Mountain-Internment-1915-1917/dp/0920862799/
http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Rockies-Mountain-Internment-1915-1917/dp/B0037V993I/
http://www.amazon.com/Secret-American-History-Trials-Internment/dp/1429633603/
http://www.amazon.com/Wild-Daisies-Sand-Canadian-Internment/dp/1896300510/
http://www.amazon.com/Korematsu-United-States-Japanese-America-Internment/dp/0894909665/
http://www.amazon.com/At-Issue-History-Internment-hardcover/dp/0737708212/
http://www.amazon.com/Camp-Narratives-Internment-Exclusion/dp/1847183980/
http://www.amazon.com/Through-Innocent-Eyes-Internment-Schoolchildren/dp/B000PMBCYG/
http://www.amazon.com/Internment-Concentration-Camps-Its-Consequences/dp/3540071237/
http://www.amazon.com/Tragic-History-Japanese-American-Internment-Cultures/dp/076602797X/
http://www.amazon.com/What-Internment-Japanese-Americans-Historians/dp/0312208294/
http://www.amazon.com/American-History-Ink-Internment-Americans/dp/0078780306/
http://www.amazon.com/Enemies-World-War-Alien-Internment/dp/0803228066/
http://www.amazon.com/Una-Storia-Segreta-Evacuation-Internment/dp/1890771406/
http://www.amazon.com/Artifacts-Loss-Crafting-Survival-Concentration/dp/0813544084/
http://www.amazon.com/Jewel-Desert-Japanese-American-Internment/dp/0520080041/
http://www.amazon.com/Concentration-Camps-Home-Front-Americans/dp/0226354768/
http://www.amazon.com/Gem-Desert-Japanese-American-Internment-Camp/dp/0595493017/
http://www.amazon.com/Amache-Japanese-Internment-Colorado-during/dp/1589790383/
http://www.amazon.com/How-Did-This-Happen-Here/dp/1410927016/
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http://www.amazon.com/World-History-Internment-Diane-Yancey/dp/1590180135/
http://www.amazon.com/Defense-Internment-Racial-Profiling-Terror/dp/0895260514/
http://www.amazon.com/Strawberry-Days-Internment-Destroyed-Community/dp/140396792X/
http://www.amazon.com/Camp-Days-1942-1945-Japanese-Internment/dp/B003IA5CPM/
http://www.amazon.com/McLean-POW-Camp-Internment-authorized/dp/0965967700/
http://www.amazon.com/Japanese-American-Internment-Camps-Relocation/dp/1155894022/
http://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Canadian-Internment-internment-Ukrainian/dp/6130264623/
http://www.amazon.com/Remembering-Heart-Mountain-Japanese-Internment/dp/0966155610/
http://www.amazon.com/City-Without-Women-Chronicle-Internment/dp/0889625301/
http://www.amazon.com/What-Remains-Japanese-Americans-Internment/dp/0963855115/
http://www.amazon.com/Heart-Mountain-Story-Photographs-Internment/dp/0967468000/
http://www.amazon.com/Historical-Memories-Japanese-American-Internment/dp/080474534X/
http://www.amazon.com/Executive-Order-9066-Internment-Americans/dp/0934052190/
http://www.amazon.com/Americas-Concentration-Japanese-American-Internment/dp/1889431583/
http://www.amazon.com/Imprisoned-Paradise-Japanese-Internee-Internment/dp/0893015504/
http://www.amazon.com/Topaz-Moon-Chiura-Obatas-Internment/dp/1890771260/
http://www.amazon.com/Internment-Japanese-Americans-Quest-Redress/dp/0815318669/
http://www.amazon.com/Within-Barbed-Wire-Fence-Biographies/dp/0887801021/
http://www.amazon.com/Camp-Harmony-Japanese-Internment-Experience/dp/0252076729/
http://www.amazon.com/Were-Not-Enemy-Remembering-Latin-American/dp/0595393330/
http://www.amazon.com/Japanese-American-Internment-during-World/dp/031331375X/
http://www.amazon.com/American-Inquisition-Japanese-Disloyalty-World/dp/0807831735/
http://www.amazon.com/Democratizing-Enemy-Japanese-American-Internment/dp/0691009457/
http://www.amazon.com/Order-President-Internment-Japanese-Americans/dp/0674006399/
http://www.amazon.com/Fighting-Honor-Japanese-Americans-World/dp/0395913756/
http://www.amazon.com/Prisoners-Without-Trial-Japanese-Americans/dp/0809015536/
http://www.amazon.com/Fear-Itself-Inside-Roundup-Americans/dp/0595351689/
http://www.amazon.com/Unquiet-Nisei-History-Kunitomi-Palgrave/dp/0230600670/
http://www.amazon.com/Serving-Our-Country-Japanese-American/dp/0813532787/
http://www.amazon.com/Buried-Past-Annotated-Bibliography-Collection/dp/0934052298/
http://www.amazon.com/Achieving-Impossible-Dream-AMERICANS-Experience/dp/0252067649/
http://www.amazon.com/Tragedy-Democracy-Japanese-Confinement-America/dp/023112922X/
http://www.amazon.com/Concentration-Camps-Home-Front-Americans/dp/0226354768/
http://www.amazon.com/Historical-Memories-Japanese-American-Internment/dp/080474534X/
http://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Americans-South-Images-America/dp/073855961X/
http://www.amazon.com/Being-Japanese-American-Sourcebook-Friends/dp/188065685X/
http://www.amazon.com/Stalag-Wisconsin-Inside-Prisoner-Camps/dp/187856983X/
http://www.amazon.com/Lone-Star-Stalag-German-Prisoners/dp/1585445452/
http://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Soldiers-Sunshine-State-Florida/dp/0813034418/
http://www.amazon.com/Prisoners-Camp-Trinidad-Colorado-1943/dp/0979046998/
http://www.amazon.com/Enemy-Among-Us-Missouri-During/dp/1883982499/
Non-Fiction Books - Personal Accounts
 | "Farewell To Manzanar: A True Story of Japanese American Experience During & After The World War II Internment" [1972] by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston & James D. Houston Laurel Leaf mass pb [3/83] for $6.99 Houghton Mifflin 8¾x6 hardcover [4/2002] for $11.25 official book site • see 1976 TV movie below |
 | "From Our Side of The Fence: Growing Up In America's Concentration Camps" [2001] Edited by Brian Komei Dempster Award-winning anthology of essays by eleven Japanese-Americans who were children inside six of the ten major U.S. WWII internment camps; from a San Francisco writing workshop led by the editor. Kearney Street Workshop Press 9x6 pb [4/2001] out of print/used publisher's book page |
 | "Ringo-en: My Internment At Manzanar" [2010] by Tadashi Kishi The author was born in Culver City, California and raised in nearby Santa Monica. His draft status was 1A in December 1941, but the government reclassified him to 4C {enemy alien} and relocated him and others to the camp at Manzanar. He finished his degree there and taught math & physics to the children of the camp, then served in the U.S. Army as a translator in Occupied Japan. His later career was in highly-classified mainframe computer development at Los Alamos Labs in New Mexico & the Liver-more Labs in California, which included work with A.R.P.A., the Magnetic Fusion Test Facility, and the Laser Project. This book describes the unresolved issues that he was still dealing with sixty years after release from Manzanar. CreateSpace 9x6 pb [1/2010] for $10.99 |
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"Making Home From War: Stories of Japanese American Exile and Resettlement" [2010] Edited by Brian Komei Dempster Long-awaited sequel to the award-winning "From Our Side of The Fence" [2001]; this book ia a report from nine aging Japanese-American internees about their many difficulties after being released from the U.S. WWII internment camps; includes 40 b&w photographs. Heyday Books 9x6 pb [11/2010] for $14.78 publisher's book page |
http://www.amazon.com/Prisoners-Camp-Trinidad-Colorado-1943/dp/0979046998/
http://www.amazon.com/Children-Topaz-Japanese-American-Internment-Classroom/dp/0823412393/
http://www.amazon.com/Camp-II-Block-211-Internment/dp/0870402595/
http://www.amazon.com/Wase-Time-Teens-Memoir-Internment/dp/1420856391/
http://www.amazon.com/Only-What-Could-Carry-Internment/dp/1890771309/
http://www.amazon.com/Lucky-Baseball-Japanese-American-Internment-Historical/dp/0766036553/
http://www.amazon.com/Internment-Korea-Solitude-Japanese-American/dp/1439258287/
http://www.amazon.com/Crystal-Internment-Anniversary-Reunion-Album/dp/B001RZAV0Q/
http://www.amazon.com/Child-Prison-Japanese-Canadian-Internment-During/dp/B001NH7X04/
http://www.amazon.com/This-Country-Too-Japanese-American-Internment/dp/1424118158/
http://www.amazon.com/Last-Witnesses-Reflections-Internment-Americans/dp/1403962308/
http://www.amazon.com/Remembering-Minidoka-Journal-Internment-Camp/dp/0322044995/
http://www.amazon.com/Morning-Glory-Evening-Shadow-Internment/dp/0804736537/
http://www.amazon.com/Dear-Miss-Breed-Joanne-Oppenheim/dp/0439569923/
http://www.amazon.com/Call-Remembrance-Suyemotos-Years-Internment/dp/0813540720/
http://www.amazon.com/Betrayed-Trust-Deported-American-Born-Family/dp/1418426377/
http://www.amazon.com/Growing-Nisei-Generation-California-Experience/dp/025206822X/
http://www.amazon.com/Evacuation-Diary-Hatsuye-Egami/dp/0964804212/
http://www.amazon.com/Altered-Lives-Enduring-Community-Incarceration/dp/0295983809/
http://www.amazon.com/Life-Behind-Barbed-Wire-Internment/dp/0824820339/
"I Call to Remembrance: Toyo Suyemoto's Years of Internment" []
Fiction Books
 | "Snow Falling On Cedars: A Novel" [1994] by David Guterson A courtroom drama set in postwar Puget Sound of Washington state; a local journalist covers the murder trial of a high school classmate; the defendent is a Japanese-American fisherman who married the woman that the journalist still loves; made into a 1999 feature film (see below} Vintage 8¼x5 pb [9/95] for $8.25 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 9¼x6¼ hardcover [9/94] for $16.50 |
 | "The Journal of Ben Uchida, Citizen 13559, Mirror Lake Internment Camp, California 1942" [1999] by Barry Denenberg Part of Scholastic's 'My Name Is America' fiction series; performed as a play in 2006 {see below}; the journal of a 12-year-old boy during his family's internment in California. Scholastic 7½x5½ hardcover [9/99] out of print/many used Scholastic 7¾x5½ hardcover [11/2003] out of print/used |
 | "Nothing To Regret: A Historical Novel" [2002] by Tristi Pinkston After the Pearl Harbor attack, a Japanese-American college student and his family are uprooted from California to Topaz Internment Camp in the desert of Utah. Granite Publng 9x6 pb [11/2002] out of print/used author's official website |
 | "Killer Smile" [2004] by Lisa Scottoline An all-female Philadelphia law firm takes the pro bono case of an Italian-American family seeking reparations for the internment of a relative during the hysteria of World War II; the official reports say that the man died by suicide, but facts soon suggest that he was killed at the hands of another Italian-American family. HarperTorch mass pb [6/2005] for $7.99 HarperCollins 9x6 hardcover [6/] out of print/hundreds used author's official website |
 | "Tallgrass: A Novel" [2007] by Sandra Dallas At the start of World War II, a young girl's life is turned upside-down when the government builds an internment camp near her family's farm in Colorado; when a young neighbor girl is murdered, the small town is further changed forever. St. Martin's Griffin pb [2/2008] for $10.07 St. Martin's Press 9x5½ hardcover [4/2007] for $16.29 author's official website |
 | "Desert Run: A Lena Jones Mystery" [2008] by Betty Webb
While Scottsdale, Arizona private eye Lena Jones is working security for a documentary film about a World War II P.O.W. camp and the escape of several inmates on Christmas Day 1944, someone murders the 91-year-old technical advisor, a former German U-boat commander and one of the escapees. Poisoned Pen Press 8¼x5¼ pb [2/2008] for $11.66 |
 | "Mystery At Manzanar: A WWII Internment Camp Story" graphic novel [age 9-12; 2008] by Eric Fein, Illustrated by Kurt Hartman Stone Arch Books 8x5½ pb [9/2008] for $5.95 Stone Arch Books 8½x5¾ library hardcover [9/2008] for $23.93 |
 | "Hotel On The Corner of Bitter and Sweet" [New York Times bestseller 2009] by Jamie Ford Two alternating narratives: An elderly Chinese widower in Seattle discovers a cache of memorabilia from World War II, when his 12-year-old self fell in love with a Japanese girl before she was shipped out to an internment camp with her family. Ballantine Books 8x5¼ pb [10/2009] for $10.20 Ballantine Books hardcover [1/2009] for $17.88 |
Internment Art
  | "Days of Waiting" documentary short [indep 1988] Artist Estelle Peck Ishigo was one of the few Caucasians to be interned with 110,000 Japanese-Americans in 1942; she refused to be separated from her Japanese-American husband and lived with him for four years behind barbed wire at Heart Mountain Camp in Wyoming. During that time she recorded the rigors and deprivations of camp life in sketches and watercolors that form a moving portrait of the lives of the internees – the struggle to keep their health, dignity and hope alive. From the Center for Asian American Media; co-produced, written & directed by Steven Okazaki; featuring Estelle Peck Ishigo; won Oscar for Best Documentary Short, won Peabody Award Farallon Films color DVD [2000] for $19.95 credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia • official movie site |
 | "Lone Heart Mountain: A Novel" [1972] by Estelle Peck Ishigo self-publd pb [1972] out of print/used |
 | "Minidoka Revisited: The Paintings of Roger Shimomura" [2005] by William W. Lew Univ WA Press 7¾x9 pb [12/2005] out of print/used Roger Shimomura entry at Wikipedia • Roger Shimomura official erbsite |
 | "Ansel Adams At Manzanar" [2006] by Anne Hammond Honolulu Academy of Arts hardcover [1/2006] out of print/used |
 | "Impounded: Dorothea Lange and The Censored Images of Japanese American Internment" [2006] Edited by Linda Gordon & Gary Y. Okihiro W.W. Norton 11x7 pb [2/2008] for $12.89 W.W. Norton 9¼x7¼ hardcover [11/2006] for $22.76 |
 | "Placing Memory: A Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment" [2008] From Charles M. Russell Center; photographs by Todd Stewart, essays by Karen Leong, Natasha Egan & John Tateishi
Univ OK Press 9x12½ hardcover [11/2008] for $26.56 |
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"Moving Images: Photography and the Japanese American Incarceration" [2009] by Jasmine Alinder examples include works of Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, Manzanar camp inmate Toyo Miyatake, and artists Patrick Nagatani & Masumi Hayashi Univ IL Press 9x6 hardcover [1/2009] for $32.58 |
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Gaman-Japanese-Internment-1942-1946/dp/1580086896/
http://www.amazon.com/Peaceful-Painter-Memoirs-Issei-Artist/dp/1890771902/
http://www.amazon.com/Elusive-Truth-Four-Photographers-Manzanar/dp/1887694242/
http://www.amazon.com/Japanese-American-Resettlement-Through-Lens-Photographic/dp/0870819283/
Stageplays, Movies, Other Media
list of documentary films about the Japanese-American internment on Wikipedia
 | "Hell To Eternity" [Allied Artists Sept 1960] True life story of Guy Gabaldon [1926-2006], a Hispanic boy raised in Los Angeles by a Japanese-American foster family. During World War II, his foster parents were sent to an internment camp, and he enlisted in the U.S. Marines. His ability to speak Japanese was useful during the bloody capture of the island of Saipan: he convinced 1,500 Japanese soldiers & civilians to surrender after their general committed suicide. Gabaldon was awarded the Navy Cross & the Congressional Medal of Honor. Directed by Phil Karlson; starring Jeffrey Hunter (as PFC Gabaldon), David Janssen, Vic Damone, Patricia Owens, Sessue Hayakawa & Miiko Taka Warner Home Video b&w DVD [6/2007] for $15.99 Fox b&w VHS [11/91] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb • Guy Gabaldon entry at Wikipedia novelization by Edward S. Aarons Fawcett Gold Medal mass pb [1960] out of print |
 | "Farewell To Manzanar" TV movie [Universal/NBC-TV March 1976] 2-hour fact-based drama about internees at the wartime internment camp at Manzanar, in the California desert; based on the 1972 book {see above}. Co-produced, co-written & directed by John Korty; co-written by Jeanne & James D. Houston; narrated by Greta Chi; starring Yuki Shimoda, Nobu McCarthy, Pat Morita, Mako, Akemi Kikumura, Clyde Kusatsu, James Saito & Momo Yashima DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb • book entry at Wikipedia |
 | "Unfinished Business: The Japanese-American Internment Cases" [indep March 1986] After President Roosevelt ordered the internment of Japanese-, German-, and Italian-American citizens, three young men were convicted of violating the internment laws; the U.S. Supreme Court upheld their convictions, and they served jail time. Forty years later, the three filed suits to have their sentences overturned. Hour-long documentary film co-produced, co-written & directed by Steven Okazaki; narrated by Amy Hill; featuring defendents Gordon Hirabayashi, a Quaker college student in Washington; Fred Korematsu, a Bay Area welder; and Min Yasui, an attorney from Oregon; Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature New Video Group color/b&w DVD [12/2005] for $17.99 full credits at IMDb • official movie site |
 | "Come See The Paradise" [Fox Dec 1990] An American union organizer falls in love with a Japanese girl in pre-war Los Angeles, and they escape local prejudice by eloping to Seattle; but soon after Pearl Harbor, all Japanese on the West Coast are herded into concentration camps, and the young man is drafted. Written & directed by Alan Parker; starring Dennis Quaid, Tamlyn Tomita, Sab Shimono, Shizuko Hoshi, Colm Meaney & Becky Ann Baker Fox widescreen color DVD [6/2006] for $12.99 Fox color VHS [3/92] out of prodn/many used Varese Sarabande soundtrack CD [12/90] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb |
  | "Beyond Barbed Wire" [indep 1987] 88-minute documentary film about the Japanese-American soldiers who fought heroically in Europe in the 442nd Infantry Regiment while their friends & families were confined to internment camps back in America. Written & directed by Steve Rosen; narrated by Noriyuki 'Pat' Morita V.C.I. Video color/b&w DVD [8/2001] for $13.49 extras on the DVD include "Go For Broke!", trailers, shorts & filmmaker bios V.C.I. Video color/b&w VHS [8/2001] out of prodn/used credits at IMDb • no entry on Wikipedia the DVD above also includes |
 | "Snow Falling On Cedars" [M.C.A./Universal Dec 1999] Before World War II, an American boy and a Japanese girl defy prejudice in their small Washington state island community and see each other secretly; their tentative love is thwarted when her family is rounded up to an internment camp and the boy is drafted into the Army. After the war, racial tension remains high; the girl married a local fisherman in the camp, and the young veteran returns home to take over his father's newspaper. Co-written & directed by Scott Hicks; co-produced & co-written by Ronald Bass, based on the 1994 novel {see above}; starring Ethan Hawke, Youki Kudoh, Rick Yune, Max von Sydow, Sam Shepard & James Cromwell Universal Studios widescreen color DVD [5/2000] for $13.49 Universal Studios widescreen color VHS [5/2000] out of prodn/many used 27"x40" poster {as at left} from Amazon for $8.49 full credits at IMDb • official movie site |
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 | "Citizen 13559: The Journal of Ben Uchida" stageplay [2006] Adapted by Naomi Iizuka from the book by Barry Denenberg hour-long children's stageplay first performed at Kennedy Center in Washington, DC in May 2006 stageplay info on Kennedy Center website author entry at Wikipedia |
 | "American Pastime" documentary film [Warner May 2007] A mix of archival and newly-shot footage, of modern actors and interviews with internees reveals the harrowing isolation & loneliness of the Topaz Camp in Utah and the Manzanar Camp in California, and a solution created inside the camps: baseball! Co-written & directed by Desmond Nakano; starring Masatoshi Nakamura, Gary Cole, Sarah Drew, Judy Ongg, Aaron Yoo, Seth Sakai, Susanna Thompson & Leonardo Nam Warner widescreen color DVD [5/2007] for $16.99 full credits from IMDb |
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"Prisoners & Patriots: Japanese Internment In Santa Fe" [indep Nov 2011]
Filmmaker Neil H. Simon interviewed former internees of the Santa Fe camp, and put together a feature-length documentary, then used Kickstarter to fund distribution of his film. He has since constructed a website that redirects to wordpress; the DVD is available there. not listed on IMDb |
The Camps
Camp Aliceville in Aliceville, Alabama housed 6,000 German POWs
Camp Douglas in Wyoming housed 3,000 German & Italian POWs
Fort Lincoln in Bismarck, North Dakota
Fort Stanton in New Mexico housed Japanese-Americans as well as German Merchant Marine POWs
Gila River Reservation in Arizona
Granada in Colorado
Camp Hearne [1942-46], SE of Waco, Texas housed 5,000 German POWs
Heart Mountain in Wyoming
Hot Springs, NC internment camp housed 2,200 German prisoners during World War I
Lordsburg Internment Camp in New Mexico
http://www.newmexicohistory.org/filedetails.php?fileID=453
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Manzanar National Historic Site [est. April 2004]
Manzanar [CA] WWII internment camp history Manzanar information website http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manzanar The Manzanar Committee website |
Minidoka Relocation Center in south-central Idaho
Mirror Lake Internment Camp, California
Roswell Internment Camp in New Mexico housed German POWs
Santa Fe, New Mexico Internment Camp [1942-46] housed 4,500 men
'San Ta He' camp historical photos
http://www.newmexicohistory.org/filedetails.php?fileID=453
"Remembering: The Santa Fe Japanese Internment Camp" short video [9:25] from KNME-TV
Scottsdale, Arizona & Papago Park: German POWs and the great escape of Christmas Eve, 1944
Topaz Center at Delta in Utah
L i n k s
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/anseladams/
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/anseladams/aamsp.html
http://americanhistory.si.edu/ourstory/activities/internment/
http://departments.oxy.edu/library/digitalarch/web/index.htm
CY's Internment information page
Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project [est. 1996] of Seattle, WA
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