Department of Justice camps

More than 5,500 Japanese immigrants (Issei) were arrested by the FBI following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Most were sent first to temporary Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) detention stations and then transferred to Department of Justice (DOJ) internment camps, where they waited to appear before the Alien Enemy Hearing Board. These hearings determined whether the Issei would remain in the internment camps or be "released" to the War Relocation Authority (WRA) concentration camps. After the hearings, most of the Issei were sent to U.S. Army internment camps. The U.S. Army, charged with detaining military prisoners of war (POWs), then returned the Issei internees to DOJ control. The DOJ camps also interned Italian and German nationals and Japanese Latin Americans. Most of the DOJ internment camps held only men who had been separated from their families, but three camps housed single women and families. The camps were run by the INS, part of the Department of Justice.

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img Medical personnel and nurses posing in front of a building (ddr-densho-223-50)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-50/

img Small group of men posing in front of dispensary (ddr-densho-223-33)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-33/

doc Letter to Henrietta Schoen from Kyujiro Ishida (ddr-densho-223-76)

Letter thanking Henrietta Schoen for her care of Kyujiro Ishida.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-76/

img A doctor wearing a stethoscope sitting on bench (ddr-densho-223-19)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-19/

img Two men posing (ddr-densho-223-29)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-29/

img Henrietta Schoen and uniformed man in front of an ambulance (ddr-densho-223-1)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-1/

doc Letter of resignation (ddr-densho-223-78)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-78/

doc Letter to Henrietta Schoen from Takeshi Ban (ddr-densho-223-58)

A letter thanking Henrietta Schoen for her kindness while Takeshi Ban was at Sante Fe.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-58/

img Henrietta Schoen and a man wearing an apron posing with doughnuts (ddr-densho-223-32)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-32/

img Large group of men posing in front of dispensary (ddr-densho-223-12)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-12/

img Four men posing on sandy hillside (ddr-densho-223-43)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-43/

img Henrietta Schoen posing in front of barracks (ddr-densho-223-9)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-9/

img A man in white cap and uniform (ddr-densho-223-20)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-20/

img Men in white caps and aprons posing in front of a rock quarry (ddr-densho-223-35)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-35/

img Three nurses in cloaks standing with a man in a suit (ddr-densho-223-22)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-22/

doc Letter to Miss Schoen from Harry K. Oye (ddr-densho-223-60)

A letter thanking Henrietta Schoen for her care of Harry K. Oye during his time at Sante Fe and informing her of his new life at Poston. Includes a clipping of a Bible verse, Matthew 5, 44 in German.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-223-60/