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Records About Japanese Americans Relocated During World War II

Metadata Updated: November 12, 2020

This series contains personal descriptive data about Japanese Americans evacuated from the states of Washington, Oregon, and California to ten relocation centers operated by the War Relocation Authority during World War II in the states of California (Tule Lake and Manzanar Centers), Idaho (Minidoka Center), Utah (Central Utah Center), Colorado (Granada Center), Arizona (Colorado River and Gila River Centers), Wyoming (Heart Mountain Center), and Arkansas (Rohwer and Jerome Centers). Each record represents an individual and includes the name; relocation project and assembly center to which assigned; previous address; birthplace of parents; occupation of father; education; foreign residence; indication of military service, public assistance, pensions, and physical defects; sex and marital status; race of evacuee and spouse; year of birth; age; birthplace; indication of the holding of an alien registration number and/or Social Security number, and whether the evacuee attended Japanese language school; highest grade completed; language proficiency; occupations; and religion.

Access & Use Information

Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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References

http://research.archives.gov/description/1264228

Dates

Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
Metadata Updated Date November 12, 2020

Metadata Source

Harvested from NARA Data.json

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 12, 2020
Metadata Updated Date November 12, 2020
Publisher National Archives and Records Administration
Maintainer
Identifier NARA-33461
Data First Published 1995-06-13
Data Last Modified 1995-06-13
Category research
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 393:00
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Program Code 000:000
Related Documents http://research.archives.gov/description/1264228
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 03c62a4e92cc11851610af98e10c904573b89ec5
Source Schema Version 1.1
Spatial United States
Temporal 1942/1946

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