WORLD WAR II | Japanese internment camps

WORLD WAR II | Japanese internment camps
This map shows several of the camps used to intern Japanese-Americans and immigrants during World War II. Many of the camps were under the auspices of the Justice Department and Army and operated by the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Gail Y. Okawa, an English professor at Youngstown State University, discovered that her grandfather was incarcerated at the camp in Santa Fe, N.M. These camps, she said, primarily held older Japanese men who held positions of authority in American communities and were separated from their families. War Relocation Authority camps and centers, where families often were interned, are not included on this map.
Source: U.S. Department of the Interior