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The Internment of Japanese Americans: The Camps

Manzanar

Manzanar
From Google Arts & Culture, the National Park Service maintains this site as a memorial to all those who were relocated during WWII.
Park Website

Minidoka

Minidoka
One of the ten camps to which Japanese Americans were sent during WWII.

Topaz

Topaz Internment Camp
Located in Delta, Utah, this was one of the ten camps to which Japanese Americans were sent.

Gila River

Gila River
Located in Rivers Arizona

National Japanese American Historical Society

Learn about the camps and listen to oral histories of some of the people who lived in them.

Behind Barbed Wire

Learn about life inside the camps and read newspapers published by those who lived there. This site is published by the Library of Congress.

Camp Harmony

Camp Harmony
Not officially an internment camp, this was the assembly station in Washington where most Japanese Americans were first taken.

Camp Poston

Poston
Located in Parker, Arizona

Tule Lake

Tule Lake
Home of the Tule Lake Concentration Center, it is now a national memorial. This came was the largest and most controversial of the camps.

Heart Mountain

Heart Mountain
Located in Powell, Wyoming, this was one of the 10 relocation camps.