NJAHS.ORG/CONFINEMENTSITES

View the National Japanese American Historical Society’s Camp Collections. Includes photographs and high quality scans of:

  • Engineering plans and architectural drawings (Courtesy of the National Japanese American Historical Society, Lynn Horiuchi, and Jimmy Yamaichi)
  • Crafts made in the Japanese American concentration camps, such as paintings, wood carvings, shell flower corsages, woven baskets, and handcrafted tools.
  • Documents, such as newspapers and other periodicals, holiday event pamphlets, War Relocation Authority issued work and leave permits, identification tags, and letters.
  • Photographs.

Coming Soon! Photographs and high quality scans from the NJAHS Japanese American Military Collection pertaining to the Japanese American Confinement Sites, such as objects issued by the US Military, photographs, documents, and objects collected by the Japanese American soldiers of the 100th Battalion / 442nd Regimental Combat Team and the Military Intelligence Service.

 

DENSHO.ORG

Densho is a nonprofit organization started in 1996, with the initial goal of documenting oral histories from Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II. This evolved into a mission to educate, preserve, collaborate and inspire action for equity. Densho uses digital technology to preserve and make accessible primary source materials on the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans. We present these materials and related resources for their historic value and as a means of exploring issues of democracy, intolerance, wartime hysteria, civil rights and the responsibilities of citizenship in our increasingly global society.

 

ANCESTRY.COM

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Trace your family history through Ancestry.com’s U.S. record collections, such as birth, marriage, death and census records detailing occupations, ages, siblings, birthplaces, addresses, and more – even maiden names. Also includes U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records and rosters of Japanese American Incarcerees at the 10 major WRA Centers.