War Relocation Authority (WRA)

Letter from F. de Amat, Consul of Spain, to Mr. Shizuo Sasaki, Secretary, Spanish Consul Joint Committee, Topaz, Utah, February 18, 1944 (ddr-csujad-55-886)

doc Letter from F. de Amat, Consul of Spain, to Mr. Shizuo Sasaki, Secretary, Spanish Consul Joint Committee, Topaz, Utah, February 18, 1944 (ddr-csujad-55-886)

Correspondence from F. de Amat, Consul of Spain, to Shizuo Sasaki, Secretary, Spanish Consul Joint Committee, regarding selective service of the Japanese American citizens. Includes information from the Embassy in Washington. D.C. regarding obligations of American citizens of Japanese descent to serve in the U.S. Army. Letter relayed from the Consul of Spain in San Francisco …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-886/

doc Administrative notice, no. 247 (April 24, 1945) (ddr-csujad-55-1669)

Summer assignments for teachers employed by the War Relocation Authority including remedial work, Relocation Center school closing procedures, nursery schools, adult vocational activities, relocation advising, supplementary family visits, assisting with group discussion, assisting with the relocation planning commission, assisting with the library, welfare work, childcare services, summer activities, programming, leadership training, and national agency programming. See …

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doc Relocation problems and policies: address by Director D. S. Myer of the War Relocation Authority (ddr-csujad-55-1644)

Transcription of a speech by Dillon Myer to the Tuesday Evening Club regarding the history and activities of the War Relocation Authority, the "relocation program," incarceration camps, registration (also known as the "loyalty questionnaire"), Tule Lake and segregation, military service, propaganda, and opposition to the WRA program. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-1644/

doc General meeting of all appointed staff and evacuee leaders, December 18, 1944 (ddr-csujad-55-1689)

Minutes from the meeting between staff and evacuee leaders at Poston incarceration camp. Covers issues related to the revocation of exclusion orders. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1691

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-1689/

doc Memo from Guy Robertson, Project Director, Heart Mountain, to residents of Heart Mountain, March 31, 1944 (ddr-csujad-55-1608)

Memorandum of understanding from Guy Robertson, Project Director at Heart Mountain incarceration camp, to incarcerees regarding the collection of quarterly census data. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1610

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-1608/

doc Memo from Guy Robertson, Project Director, Heart Mountain Relocation Center to all division heads, January 1, 1943 (ddr-csujad-55-598)

Memorandum of understanding from Guy Robertson, Project Director at Heart Mountain incarceration camp, to All Division Heads regarding "coordination of physical operation for the project." See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0600

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-598/

doc Notice of assignment, WRA-21, Aie Yokota (ddr-csujad-55-223)

Notice of assignment for Aie Yokota as a Waitress. WRA-21. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0225

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-223/

doc Memo from Saburo Nakashima, Chairman, Heart Mountain Community Council, to Relocation Program officers, April 14, 1944 (ddr-csujad-55-934)

Memorandum of understanding from Saburo Nakashima of the Heart Mountain Community Council to Relocation Program Officers regarding liberalization of the relocation policy and elimination of leave procedures. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0936

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-934/

doc Heart Mountain Relocation Project, statistics, period covering December 3-December 10, 1942 (ddr-csujad-55-675)

Report and statistics covering Heart Mountain incarceration camp. Includes reports from WRA divisions including Housing and employment, War works (covering the canal project, cabinet shop, ceramics project, sewing project, sawmill project, and canning project), Recreation, Education, Community government, Hospital (covers statistics), Community services (covers fire department, police department, and social welfare), Office of design coordination, administration, …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-675/

doc Supplementary statement by Mr. D. S. Myer (ddr-csujad-55-1643)

Report by Dillon Myer before the Sub-Committee of the Military Affairs Committee of the U.S. Senate regarding the history and activities of the War Relocation Authority and the "relocation program." Includes a memorandum of understanding between the WRA and the War Department, description of problems with the "evacuation program," evacuation of Hawaii, administrative policies on housing, …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-1643/

doc Bibliography on War Relocation Authority, Japanese and Japanese-Americans, Part III (ddr-csujad-55-1652)

Bibliography of material published between October 1942 and July 1943 on the War Relocation Authority, the Japanese, and Japanese Americans in the United States and Hawaii. Includes articles, pamphlets, books, manuscripts, and published bibliographies. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1654

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-1652/

doc Americans of Japanese ancestry (ddr-csujad-55-1649)

Report by John Embree regarding cultural values of Nisei and Issei and incarceree attitudes towards authority, employment, incarceration, and the war. See also sac_jaac_1643. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1651

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-1649/

doc Memo from Lorne Huycke, Leave Officer, to all teacher interviewers, February 16, 1943 (ddr-csujad-55-194)

Memorandum of understanding from Lorne Huycke, Leave Officer in Tule Lake camp to teacher interviewers regarding, "Assembling of Registration Papers." See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0196

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-194/

doc Memo from Guy Robertson, Heart Mountain Project Director, to Committee of Delegates Cooperative, January 14, 1943 (ddr-csujad-55-612)

Memorandum of understanding from Guy Robertson, Project Director at Heart Mountain incarceration camp, to Committee of Delegates Cooperative regarding the rules and regulations for consumer enterprises at the camp. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0614

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-612/

doc Employee driver's license, Form WRA-22, Masami Iwasa (ddr-csujad-55-162)

Poston employee driver's license authorizing Masami Iwasa to operate a government owned vehicle as part of employment as a Supply and Transportation Officer with the War Relocation Authority. Form WRA-22. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0164

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-162/

doc Report to the Charter Delegates: resume of the Committee on Council (ddr-csujad-55-782)

Report by the Committee on Council regarding their study of methods of community government ("self government"). Outlines community government structures including the Commission plan, Des Moines plan, bicameral, City Manager plan, BCC plan, and suggestions from the committee. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0784

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-782/

doc Memo from Guy Robertson, Project Director, Heart Mountain Relocation Center, to all division heads, January 5, 1943 (ddr-csujad-55-599)

Memorandum of understanding from Guy Robertson, Project Director, to All Division Heads regarding job responsibility and reporting for divisions at Heart Mountain incarceration camp. Includes organizational chart for Heart Mountain incarceration camp with a list of divisions, sections, units, and personnel. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0601

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-599/

doc Administrative notice, no. 241 (April 26, 1945) (ddr-csujad-55-1668)

Myths and Facts about the Japanese Americans, War Relocation Authority. Memorandum regarding distribution and use of a War Relocation Authority publication titled "Myths and Facts about the Japanese Americans." See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1670

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-1668/

doc Teacher and the War Relocation project (ddr-csujad-55-1735)

Essay on teachers and the War Relocation Project. Covers the history and activities of the War Relocation Authority and Relocation Centers, evacuation ("mass removal"), consumer enterprises, role of schools in the incarceration camps, WRA educational policy, educational program, relation of incarceration camp schools to public school systems, school population and organization, selection of personnel, school program, …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-1735/

img Man using industrial mixer (ddr-densho-499-48)

Caption, "Photographic Section; War Relocation Authority; Denver, Co."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-499-48/

doc Clothing vouchers (ddr-densho-469-2)

Clothing vouchers for Hamaki, Hamako, and Kazuo Otani.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-469-2/

doc Second Year at Gila (ddr-densho-469-9)

A summary of the second year spent by camp inmates at the Gila River Relocation Center. Topics on the second year of the camp include the camp's administration, involvement in the war, predominant religions, schools, agriculture, recreation, and population, ending with a timeline of events.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-469-9/

doc Letter to Rev. Robert Inglis from Masaki and George Aki (ddr-densho-498-54)

Letter to Robert Inglis from George Aki discussing his move from Topaz to Jerome, the state of the church within the camp, and his wife's pregnancy.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-498-54/

doc Democracy and Japanese Americans (ddr-densho-498-2)

Democracy and Japanese Americans by Norman Thomas. Pamphlet discussing Japanese American incarceration by the War Relocation Authority.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-498-2/

doc "Questions and Answers for Evacuees: Information Regarding the Relocation Program" (ddr-densho-350-29)

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