They Called Us Enemy by George Takei: Japanese American Relocation Camp

is a website whose mission is to preserve the testimonies of Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II before their memories are extinguished. They offer oral history accounts, coupled with historical images and teacher resources, to explore principles of democracy and promote equal justice for all.

Ansel Adam's photographs document the life in this California camp accompanied by text. Together they capture the full camp experience.

Art and photography created by Japanese-American Internees during World War II
Clara Breed Collection: this collection focuses on the librarian's correspondence with young Japanese Americans during their internment during World War II.
Hisako Hibi Collection: includes sixty-three oil paintings by Hisako Hibi created at the Tanforan Assembly Center in California Topaz camp in Utah between 1942 and 1945, including portrayals of various daily activities.
George Hoshida Collection: Includes over 260 drawings and watercolors drawn from Hoshida's visual diary covering his incarceration in various concentration camps throughout the duration of World War II.
Estelle Ishigo Collection: over 120 drawings, sketches, and watercolors portraying life in the Pomona detention center in California and in the Heart Mountain, Wyoming camp during World War II.
Jack Iwata Collection: over 170 photographs taken at Manzanar and Tule Lake concentration camps between 1942 and 1945.
Walter Muramoto Collection: a collection of 361 photographs detailing daily life in Rohwer, Arkansas between 1942 and 1945. The same camp Takei lived with his family.
Mori Shimada Collection: a collection of scrapbooks featuring photographs of friends, family, and social and sporting events in Heart Mountain concentration camp.
Henry Sugimoto Collection: Over 130 paintings from the 1930s to the 1950s, depicting several concentration camps.

TULE LAKE INTERNMENT CAMP EXHIBIT
TOPAZ INTERNMENT CAMP EXHIBIT

Japanese American Exhibit & Access Project

Manzanar War Relocation Center was one of ten camps at which Japanese American citizens and resident Japanese aliens were incarcerated during World War II. Located at the foot of the majestic Sierra Nevada in eastern California's Owens Valley, Manzanar has been identified as one of the best preserved of these camps.

The Pearl Harbor attack intensified existing hostility towards Japanese Americans. As wartime hysteria mounted, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 forcing over 120,000 West Coast persons of Japanese ancestry (Nikkei) to leave their homes, jobs, and lives behind, forcing them into one of ten prison camps spread across the nation because of their ethnicity.
This is Minidoka's story.

Internment of the Japanese During World War II — 1942
Instructions to All Persons of Japanese Ancestry — 1942
Excerpts from Gen. DeWitt's Final Report on the Evacuation of the Japanese — 1942

Transcript Courtesy of History Matters

Listen to life in the Manzanar camp in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California.

Experience the camp through interactive 3 D visualization, view art work created by the people in the camps, use the interactive timeline to follow important events in the history of the camps

JARDA contains thousands of Japanese American internment primary source materials:
• Personal diaries, letters, photographs, and drawings
• US War Relocation Authority materials, including camp newsletters, final reports, photographs, and other documents relating to the day-to-day administration of the camps
• Personal histories documenting the lives of the people who lived in the camps as well as the administrators who created and worked in the camps

Provided digitally from the Library of Congress, these newspapers provide a unique look into the daily lives of the people who were held in these camps. They include articles written in English and Japanese, typed, handwritten and drawn. They advertise community events, provide logistical information about the camps and relocation, report on news from the community, and include editorials.

Images and stories of the attack.

Included are photographs, letter, poems, paintings, diaries, government documents and oral histories from internees and others to share with students and the general public.

These materials, published between 1942 and 1946 by the War Relocation Authority, document the removal of Japanese and Japanese Americans as ordered by President F. D. Roosevelt in February 1942

This Web exhibit features images from forty photographs taken for the War Relocation Authority and vividly depicts life in Arizona's two camps.

Information about records held by the National Archives relating to the War relocation Authority with links to the NARA records that have been placed online.