Web Resources
Sites details experiences of persons of Japanese ancestry in internment camps.
- JARDA: Japanese American Relocation Digital ArchivesPrimary sources include photographs, documents, manuscripts, paintings, drawings, letters, and oral histories detailing the experience of Japanese Americans in World War II internment camps..
- Densho: The Japanese American Legacy ProjectThe Densho's mission is to preserve the testimonies of Japanese Americans who were incarcerated during World War II through the use of firsthand accounts, coupled with historical images and teacher resources.
- Evacuation & Internment of San Francisco Japanese AmericansSelected digitized articles from the The San Francisco News during the relocation and internment period.
- Japanese Americans at ManzanarThe National Park Service provides information on the internment of Japanese Americans at the camp in Manzanar which is located in the Owens Valley of California.
- Japanese American Internment During WW II--ImagesPrimary sources in the Library of Congress digital collection.
- Ansel Adam's Photographs of Japanese-American Internment at ManzanarThis collection contains photographs taken by noted photographer Ansel Adams documenting life at the Manzanar War Relocation Center in California.
- Japanese American Relocation Digital ArchiveThis searchable collection of over 200 photographs from the Los Angeles Examiner documents the relocation of Japanese Americans in California during World War II.
- "Children of the Camps" A PBS resourceThis site offers some information on the children of Japanese descent which were interned during World War II.
- History of the Internment in Hawai'iOn March 1, 1943, the Honouliuli internment camp, located in a gulch in Central O‘ahu, opened. This camp was one of at least five sites in the Hawaiian Islands that were used to house local Japanese who were detained by the Federal Government.