Japanese-American Internment Oral Histories, 2001.

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Japanese-American Internment Oral Histories, 2001.

2001

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This collection contains audio interviews, transcriptions, photographs, genealogical and family background information, and related newspaper clippings and letters. In addition to discussing life before, during, and after the time spent at the Relocation Centers, many of the narrators focus on how family dynamics changed while in the camps. Some interviewees compare the persecution of Muslims in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks to what the Japanese-Americans went through during World War II.

0.5 linear feet

eng, Latn

University of the Pacific, William Knox Holt Memorial Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7955507

University of the Pacific, William Knox Holt Memorial Library

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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....

Tule Lake Relocation Center

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World War II and its subsequent effects on the American nation permeated every aspect of the lives of the country's people. Although virtually everyone was touched in some respect by the war, perhaps no people, as a group, were affected more than the Japanese-Americans living in the far western states. Both aliens and American citizens of Japanese ancestry became the victims of the distrust and fear generated by both civilians and military personnel along the Pacific Coast. Viewed a...

Gila River Relocation Center

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Sparks, Edith

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In the fall of 2001, University of the Pacific professor Edith Sparks assigned her students to interview nine Japanese-Americans who lived in San Joaquin County and were sent to Relocation Centers during World War II. From the description of Japanese-American Internment Oral Histories, 2001. (University of the Pacific). WorldCat record id: 662800704 ...