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Taylor, Alan, "World War II: Internment of Japanese Americans," The Atlantic, August 22, 2011. 45 photos (Part 10 of a weekly 20-part retrospective of World War II, in the column, "In Focus with Alan Taylor")

"A massive collection of research materials made accessible by various means, including textual searches and browsing options, visual mechanisms such as GIS tagging and interactive maps, a timeline, and pointers to related resources. The collection comprises daily journals, field reports, life histories, extensive correspondence between staff, evacuees, and others, and secondary research materials collected and compiled by the research staff."

* 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

Densho is a Japanese term meaning "to pass on to the next generation," or to leave a legacy. This is a digital archive of video oral histories of Japanese-Americans incarcerated or interned during World War II, including first hand testimonies coupled with historical images and teacher resources.

Images, music, texts and first-person accounts of Japanese Americans who were placed in detention camps during World War II.
Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Behring Center

This collection within the Utah State University Digital Library includes issues of Trek, the quarterly literary magazine of the camp, other documents and reports, and links to additional web resources about the Topaz Relocation Center.

Primary sources in the Library of Congress digital collection.

Manzanar War Relocation Center was one of ten camps where Japanese American citizens and resident Japanese aliens were interned during World War II

Labor Arts celebrates the publication of an important book with this exhibit. The book is Impounded: Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment, edited by Linda Gordon and Gary Y. Okihiro (Norton, 2006). The exhibit features images from the book, additional images from the archives, and an introduction by Linda Gordon.

Narr. by Milton S. Eisenhower, director of the War Relocation Authority. An historical record of the transfer of Japanese residents from the Pacific Coast to the American Interior as carried out the the U.S. Army and the War Relocation Authority. 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry, two-thirds of them American citizens. Special attention given to possibility of sabotage & espionage. This movie is part of the collection: Prelinger Archives
Producer: U.S. Office of War Information
Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

Government-produced film attempting to defend the massive internment of Japanese Americans in concentration camps during World War II.
This movie is part of the collection: Prelinger Archives
Producer: U.S. War Relocation Authority
Sponsor: U.S. War Relocation Authority with the cooperation of the Office of War Information and the Office of Strategic Services
Audio/Visual: Sd, B&W
Creative Commons license: Public Domain