Topaz War Relocation Center
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The Topaz War Relocation Center, also known as the Central Utah Relocation Center and briefly as the Abraham Relocation Center, was an American concentration camp in which Americans of Japanese descen
Looking down a main thoroughfare at Topaz (October 18, 1942)
Hog farm where internees raised pork for the camp's kitchen
Internees clear land for agricultural use.
James Hatsuaki Wakasa and his dog in an undated photograph. A 63-year-old chef from San Francisco, Wakasa was shot and killed by a military sentry while walking his dog inside the barbed-wire fence.
Tanforan Assembly Center
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The Tanforan Assembly Center was created to temporarily detain nearly 8,000 Japanese Americans, mostly from the San Francisco Bay Area, under the auspices of Executive Order 9066. After the order was
Topaz War Relocation Center
…in what were euphemistically called "relocation centers" like Topaz during World War II. Most of the people incarcerated at Topaz came from the Tanforan Assembly Center and previously lived in the San Francisco Bay Area. The camp was opened in September 1942 and closed in October 1945. The camp, approximately 15 miles…
A family arrives at the Tanforan grandstand. Dorothea Lange, 1942.
All maintenance work, repair and construction is done by volunteer workers of Japanese ancestry. This gang of boys and young men are digging a drainage tank along the front of one of the barracks. Lange, 1942.
Converted horse stalls
Barracks