Japanese Relocation

Documentary film produced by the War Relocation Authority 1942, narrated by Milton Eisenhower.

Japanese-Americans await internment 1942, from NA

Themes of the film:

• fear of sabotage greatest
• largest number of Japanese-Americans in Los Angeles
• "evacuees cooperated wholeheartedly"
• taken to assembly centers at racetracks, fairgrounds, e.g. Santa Anita Racetrack where they made camouflage nets for the U. S. Army
• "final move began" to permanent relocation centers, met by Japanese-American guides, on land "full of opportunity" where they could "reclaim the desert"
• schools, self-government, citations given to "diligent block leaders"
• "immediately wanted to go to work" at Manzanar making guayule plants
• irrigation at Parker
• worked in sugar beet fields

Links:

• Executive Order 9066 of Feb. 19, 1942, ordered the internment of all Japanese-Americans; 110,000 American citizens of Japanese ancestry in the 48 states, most in California, were moved to assembly centers and then to relocation camps.
• WRA exhibit from U of Arizona - map
• Heart Mountain WY
• Manzanar NHS - 2
• Tule and Topaz from U of Utah
• Camp Harmony Puyallup Assembly Center in Seattle
• America's Concentration Camps photo collages by Masumi Hayashi
• Niihau incident
• America Responds - Pacific 1942

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