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Japanese Internment Camp: Topaz

General Website Resources

Topaz Museum HomeWakasa 80th Memorial Commemorative Weekend April 21 - 22 Salt Lake City and Delta Utah Email Wakasa80th@gmail.com and visit www.wakasa80th.org to receive event updates Wakasa Memorial Press Release Wakasa Monument Conservation Plan Community Outreach Report

Densho Encyclopedia

A free online resource about the history of the Japanese American WWII exclusion and incarceration experience

https://encyclopedia.densho.org/

Exploring the Japanese American Interment through Film & The Internet

https://caamedia.org/jainternment/

Japanese American National Museum

https://www.janm.org/

Discover NikkeiJapanese migrants and their descendants

Topaz Resources

Topaz Internment Camp | KUED Topaz Residents CollectionTopaz administrative offices.

Topaz Barracks | KUED Topaz Residents CollectionTopaz barracks.

Topaz Museum HomeSeven New Directors Join Topaz Museum Board Community Outreach Report Museum Info for Visitors Topaz Museum Newsletter Resources About the Topaz Museum JAPANESE AMERICAN WWII INTERNMENT CAMP

Facts About TopazFACTS ABOUT THE TOPAZ CAMP Opened on September 11, 1942 Closed on October 31, 1945 The original name, Central Utah Relocation Center, was changed to Abraham Relocation Center, and then to Topaz. Because the original name was too long to fit on postal forms, and the nearby town of Abraham

Hisako Hibi Collection

https://www.janm.org/collections/hisako-hibi-collection

Topaz, UtahUnframed stretched canvas. Image of grey, black, brown barracks, plume of smoke at left, a mountain peak in the background.

Topaz HospitalUnframed, stretched canvas.;Image of an elderly man watching three people within a fenced area against a backdrop of barracks and mountains at Topaz concentration camp …

Topaz Farm ProductsFramed, stretched canvas. Lush, green still life with orange-colored fruit at BC. Framed for exhibition. Signed on lower right corner, "Hisako Hibi Sept. 1944". W …

Topaz Internment Camp | Bureau of Land Management

Central Utah Relocation Center (Topaz) Site (U.S. National Park Service)

Lesson Plans

https://history.utah.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/K12_Japanese-Internment-at-Topaz_OPTP.pdf

1942–1945: Topaz Internment CampDuring World War II, the United States forced over 120,000 Japanese American citizens and legal residents to leave their homes and live in internment camps. The reason? Many Americans thought that people of Japanese descent…

Topaz Relocation Center

https://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/t/TOPAZ_RELOCATION_CENTER.shtml

Densho Encyclopedia Topaz

https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Topaz/

USU Digital Collection

https://digital.lib.usu.edu/digital/collection/p16944coll135

USU Exhibits:

Convicting the Innocent: Japanese American Youth at Topaz: Topaz: Utah’s Fifth-Largest City

http://exhibits.usu.edu/exhibits/show/topazrelocationcenter/topaz

Camp fire department, c. 1943, Topaz concentration camp, Utah. Courtesy of Densho, the Yamanaka Collection More info »

Videos

Gallery

Topaz: Internment Through Young Eyesby TIFFANY M.T. LIEU Photos courtesy of J. Willard Marriott Library Special Collections After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, over 127,000 Japanese Americans were placed int…

P1584 Willis Carl. BX 1, FLD #3. "Teens outside high school."

P1584 Willis Carl. BX 1, FLD #4. "Five young men." David Hisato is on the far right.

PO 800 George Murarami Topaz, FLD #6. "7 young men."

P1584 Willis Carl. BX 1, FLD #2. "Young girls doing homework."

Additional Resources

Prejudice & Propaganda

U.S. Discrimination of Issei before World WAr II

https://caamedia.org/jainternment/ww2/prewar.html

Densho Encyclopedia: Gentleman's Agreement

School Segregation in California in the early 1900's

https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Gentlemen's_Agreement

California Alien Land Laws of 1913 & 1920

https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Alien_land_laws/

Cable Act

https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Cable_Act/

The Harada House in CA

The Harada House

https://www.riversideca.gov/museum/haradahouse/

Key Names

Executive Order 9066

Franklin D. Roosevelt

President of the United States during WWII

Executive Order 9066

https://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5154

Densho Encylopedia

https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Franklin_D._Roosevelt/

Delos Emmons

General who prevented the exclusion of the Japanese on the Hawaiian Islands

https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Delos_Emmons/

Colonel Karl R. Bendetsen

Architect of the Internment

https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Karl_Bendetsen/

Milton Eisenhower

First Director of the War Relocation Authority

https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Milton_Eisenhower/

Earl Warren

Attorney General of California at the time of Internment

https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Earl_Warren/

General John L. DeWitt

In charge of Western Defense Command in World War II and strong proponent for Internment

https://encyclopedia.densho.org/John_DeWitt/

Robert B. Cozzens

Assistant Director of the War Relocation Authority

Calisphere Oral History Interview

Herbert B. Maw

Governor of Utah at the time of Internment

Topaz Utah's 5th Largest City

http://exhibits.usu.edu/exhibits/show/topazrelocationcenter/topaz

Frank Knox

Secretary of the Navy during most of WWII

https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Frank_Knox/

Curtis B. Munson

wrote the Munson report

https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Munson_Report

War Relocation Authority

responsible for enforcing Executive Order 9066

https://encyclopedia.densho.org/War_Relocation_Authority/

Native Sons/Daughters of the Golden West

Fraternal orgs that fought to annul the rights of Japanese Americans during WWII

https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Native_Sons_of_the_Golden_West/Native_Daughters_of_the_Golden_West/

Temporary Assembly Center & 10 WRA (War Relocation Authority) Relocation Centers--the Camps

WRA Relocation Centers-Camps

Topaz

https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Topaz/

Tule Lake

https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Tule_Lake/

Gila River

https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Gila_River/

Amache (Granada)

https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Amache_(Granada)/

Manzanar

https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Manzanar/

Minidoka

https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Minidoka/

Rowher

https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Rohwer/

Poston (Colorado River)

https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Poston_(Colorado_River)/

Heart Mountain

https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Heart_Mountain/

Jerome

https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Jerome/

Additional Information on Centers

Crystal City

Japanese and German immigrants deported from Latin American countries stayed at this camp

https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Crystal_City_(detention_facility)/

German and Italian immigrants were also detained

German American Internee Coalition: History

https://gaic.info/history/

The Internment of Italian Americans during WWII

https://digitalcommons.pace.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1207&context=pilr

Resistors & Court Challenges

Fred Korematsu

Fred's Story - Korematsu InstituteFRED KOREMATSU’S STORY Abbreviated Biography Fred T. Korematsu was a national civil rights hero. In 1942, at the age of 23, he refused to go to the government’s incarceration camps for Japanese Americans. After he was arrested and convicted of defying the government’s order, he appealed his case all the way to the Supreme Court. … Fred’s Story Read More »

Ex Parte Endo

https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Ex_parte_Mitsuye_Endo_(1944)/

Hirabayashi v. United States

https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Hirabayashi_v._United_States/

Yasui v. United States

https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Yasui_v._United_States/

Loyalty Questionnaire

https://www.intimeandplace.org/Japanese%20Internment/reading3.html

Japanese Americans Role in WWI

Japanese Americans in military during WWII

https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Japanese_Americans_in_military_during_World_War_II/

Going for Broke: National Education Center

To educate and inspire character and equality through the virute and valor of our World War II American veterans of Japanese ancestry

https://goforbroke.org/

Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism During World War II (U.S. National Park Service)

100th / 442nd Regimental Combat Team - National Japanese American Historical Society - NJAHS

Primary Sources

Digital ArchiveDIGITAL ARCHIVE This archive contains a wide range of digital material regarding the history of Topaz: photographs, the Topaz Times, and the names of all Topaz internees located in the Central Utah Final Accountability Report. Click below to view and search the collections. Topaz Stories Remembering

USU Digital Collection

https://digital.lib.usu.edu/digital/collection/p16944coll135

Densho Digital Repository

https://ddr.densho.org/

Tanforan Totalizer

News from Tanforan camp

News from Topaz camp

Quarterly Magazine

About this Collection | Japanese-American Internment Camp Newspapers, 1942-1946 | Digital Collections | Library of Congress Produced by the Japanese-Americans interned at assembly centers and relocation centers around the country during World War II, 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.

Apologies & Reparations

Ronald Reagan signing the Civil Liberties Act of 1988

National Coalition for Redress/Reparations

https://ncrr-la.org/about

National Council for Japanese American Redress

https://encyclopedia.densho.org/National_Council_for_Japanese_American_Redress/

Civil Liberties Act of 1988

https://encyclopedia.densho.org/Civil_Liberties_Act_of_1988/

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