In dictionaries:
Rohwer War Relocation Center
a World War II Japanese American concentration camp located in rural southeastern Arkansas, in Desha County.
Topaz War Relocation Center
The Topaz War Relocation Center, also known as the Central Utah Relocation Center (Topaz) and briefly as the Abraham Relocation Center, was an American concentration camp in which Americans of Japanese descent and immigrants who had come to the United States from Japan, called Nikkei were incarcerated.
Heart Mountain Relocation Center
The Heart Mountain War Relocation Center, named after nearby Heart Mountain and located midway between the northwest Wyoming towns of Cody and Powell, was one of ten concentration camps used for the internment of Japanese Americans evicted during World War II from their local communities (including their homes, businesses, and college residencies) in the West Coast Exclusion Zone by the executive order of President Franklin Roosevelt (after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941, upon the recommendation of Lieutenant General John L. DeWitt).
Gila River War Relocation Center
an American concentration camp in Arizona, one of several built by the War Relocation Authority during the Second World War for the incarceration of Japanese Americans from the West Coast.
Poston War Relocation Center
The Poston Internment Camp, located in Yuma County (now in La Paz County) in southwestern Arizona, was the largest (in terms of area) of the 10 American concentration camps operated by the War Relocation Authority during World War II.
Jerome War Relocation Center
a Japanese American internment camp located in southeastern Arkansas, near the town of Jerome in the Arkansas Delta.
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