Ancestry.com has a searchable database containing the names, birth year and place, educational achievement and other information about Japanese Americans who were in internment camps during WWII.
The database “contains images of a collection of documents from 10 Japanese-American internment camps of World War II as follows:
- Topaz Internment Camp, Central Utah
- Colorado River (Poston) Internment Camp, Arizona
- Gila River Internment Camp, Phoenix, Arizona
- Granada (Amache) Internment Camp, Colorado
- Heart Mountain Internment Camp, Wyoming
- Jerome Internment Camp, Arkansas
- Manzanar Internment Camp, California
- Minidoka Internment Camp, Idaho
- Rohwer Internment Camp, Arkansas
- Tule Lake Internment Camp, California
- Types of records and documents contained in this collection includes:
- Local newspapers
- High school newspapers
- Legal reports
- Press bulletins
- Church reports
- Employment reports
- Community activities
- Financial reports
- Meeting minutes
- Education reports
- Project reports“
Click on Press Release to read more about it.
Click on Ancestry.com to access the records.
