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Asian Studies: Japanese Americans
Final Accountability: Rosters of Evacuees
at Japanese-American Relocation Centers,
1944-1946
Source
National Archives (U.S.)
Period
1944-1946
Content
3,145 images
Product Number
265121
Product Code
GDSC-71
The rosters, which are part of the Records of the War Relocation Authority, consist of
alphabetical lists of evacuees resident at the centers during the period of their existence. The
lists typically provide the following information about the individual evacuees: name, family
number, sex, date of birth, marital status, citizenship status, alien registration number, method
of original entry into center, date of entry, pre-evacuation address, center address, type of
final departure, date of departure, and final destination. Included for each center are summary
tabulations on evacuees resident at the center and on total admissions and departures.
Japanese American Internment: Records
of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
Source
Franklin D. Roosevelt Library
Period
1933-1988
Content
6,734 images
Product Number
16381545
Product Code
GDSC-279
In an atmosphere of hysteria following U.S. entry into the Second World War, and with the
support of officials at all levels of the federal government, President Franklin D. Roosevelt
authorized the internment of tens of thousands of American citizens of Japanese ancestry and
resident aliens from Japan. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066, dated February 19, 1942, gave
the U.S. military broad powers to ban any citizen froma wide coastal area stretching from the
state of Washington to California and extending inland into southern Arizona. The order also
authorized transporting these citizens to assembly centers hastily set up and governed by the
military in Arizona, California, Oregon, and Washington. The same executive order, as well as
other war-time orders and restrictions, were also applied to smaller numbers of residents of
the United States of Italian or German descent. Yet while these individuals (and others from
those groups) suffered grievous violations of their civil liberties, the war-time measures
applied to Japanese Americans were harsher and more sweeping. Entire communities were
uprooted by an executive order that targeted U.S. citizens and resident aliens.
Original Microform Title: The Internment of Japanese Americans: Records of the Franklin D. Roosevelt
Library