Headquarters Subject-Classified General Files, 1942–1946

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Headquarters Subject-Classified General Files, 1942–1946

1942-1946

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/1534417

This series consists of correspondence, interoffice memoranda, reports, instructions, regulations, manuals, handbooks, bulletins, directories, forms, questionnaires, charts, graphs, press releases, newsletters, newspaper clippings, and governmental and private publications relating to the organization, functions, policies, procedures, and operations of the War Relocation Authority (WRA). The series also contains records designated "confidential" by the WRA including copies of letters, telegrams, and memoranda sent relating primarily to the relocation process, the entrance of some evacuees into military service, the renunciation of United States citizenship by others, the Tule Lake segregation policy, leave clearances, the revocation of the west coast exclusion order, the establishment of the Oswego (Fort Ontario) Refugee Shelter, and the liquidation of the War Relocation Authority (WRA).

224 linear feet, 6 linear inches

eng, Latn

National Archives at Washington, D.C

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SNAC Resource ID: 11676647

National Archives at Washington, D.C

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Rohwer Relocation Center (Ark.)

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The Rohwer War Relocation Center was a World War II Japanese American concentration camp in Desha County, Arkansas. It was in operation from September 18, 1942, until November 30, 1945, and held as many as 8,475 Japanese Americans forcibly evacuated from California....