Guidebook to the Central Utah Relocation Project in Topaz, Utah describes to incoming residents the layout, facilities, and services of the center. Illustrated by Yuri Sugihara, the guidebook contains maps, building layouts, a diagram of the...
Central Utah Relocation Center; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
February 1943 issue of Trek, a quarterly literary magazine produced at the Topaz Relocation Center. Edited by Jim Yamada, Taro Katayama and Marii Kyogoku, with Mine Okubo as Art Editor and Tom Yamamoto as contributing artist. Articles and stories...
Central Utah Relocation Center -- Periodicals; Central Utah Relocation Center; Velez de Escalante, Silvestre, d. 1792; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans
This is the holiday issue of Trek, a quarterly literary magazine produced at the Topaz Relocation Center. Edited by Jim Yamada, with Mine Okubo as Art Editor, this issue contained the following articles: State of the City by Taro Katayama;...
Central Utah Relocation Center -- Periodicals; Central Utah Relocation Center; Geology -- Utah; Japanese Americans; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
June 1943 issue of Trek, a quarterly literary magazine produced by the residents of the Topaz Relocation Center. This issue was edited by Toku Okubo and Nobuo Kitagaki with Mine Okubo as art editor and Alfred Sawahata as contributing artist. ...
Central Utah Relocation Center -- Periodicals; Central Utah Relocation Center; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans
Written and illustrated by residents of Topaz, this 55 page collection of stories and articles recounts the experiences and feelings of the Japanese Americans forced to leave cherished homes, jobs, possessions, and pets for the dusty, stark...
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Japanese Americans -- Attitudes
In this letter to the editor of the Logan Herald Journal, her hometown newspaper, Laura Merrill writes from the Topaz Relocation Center, describing the small libraries she oversees as the Center's Librarian and what life is like inside Topaz. This...
Central Utah Relocation Center -- Libraries; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Central Utah Relocation Center; Merrill, Laura Liona Rees, 1876-1963 -- Correspondence; Letters to the editor -- Utah -- Topaz
Of the nine final reports written by the War Relocation Authority, this one differs in attempting to give a comprehensive view of the WRA program in its entirety rather than focusing on some particular facet of the program as did the other reports....
United States. War Relocation Authority; Japanese Americans; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Ramblings '44 is the second yearbook produced by the Associated Students of Topaz High School. Covering the school year September 1943 through June 1944, it describes the scholastic activities and accomplishments of Japanese American students...
Topaz High School -- Students -- Yearbooks; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Japanese American students interned at the Topaz Relocation Center produced high school yearbooks during the 1943 and 1944 school years. The introduction to the 1943 yearbook provides some insight into the unusual nature of their school: "The...
Topaz High School -- Students -- Yearbooks; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Memorial address given September 11, 1944 by Rev. Shigeo Shimada at a memorial service for Private Nobuo Kajiwara, a 29-year-old Japanese American killed in action in Italy on July 11, 1944. The service was given at the Topaz Relocation Center...
Kajiwara, Nobuo, 1912-1944; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Central Utah Relocation Center; Japanese American soldiers; World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Japanese-American; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives
Memorial address given December 3, 1944 by Masaru Narahara for 10 Japanese American soldiers who died in action. Narahara, chairman of the Community Council at the Topaz Relocation Center where the address was given, paid honor to the memory of 10...
Japanese American soldiers; World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Japanese-American; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Central Utah Relocation Center
In 1980, the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians was established to review the facts and circumstances surrounding the relocation of American citizens and permanent resident aliens during World War II and "recommend...
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; United States. War Relocation Authority; Detention of persons -- United States; Japanese Americans -- Civil rights
Report describes how the War Relocation Authority was established, organized, and managed. It covers in detail the logistics of setting up, staffing, supplying, and then closing the centers. One section covers the agency's records management of...
This report examines how property owned by West Coast Japanese Americans in 1942 was handled when they were forced to go to relocation centers. Table of Contents: Legal Provisions for Controlling the Assets of Enemy Nationals in Time of War;...
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Property; Farm ownership
Report examines the development and function of community government within the relocation centers. It describes early debates on how centers should be governed, problems caused by differences in attitudes and values held by alien Japanese (Issei)...
Japanese Americans; Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
