PARTNER

OBJECT ID

ddr-densho-1024-23 (Internet Archive: 010114Jerome_201710)

PARENT COLLECTION

Digital Library of Japanese American Incarceration Films

DESCRIPTION

Home movie shot at the Jerome (Arkansas) Relocation Center, ca. June 1944. Jerome was the last concentration camp for Japanese Americans to open and the first to close; upon its closing, detainees were transported to nearby Rohwer and camps in other states. This Kodachrome film was shot by an unknown cameraperson and found on eBay. Includes shots of camp civilian and military staff, camp buildings, Japanese Americans incarcerated in the camp, a high-school graduation, young people reading the camp newspaper, and incarcerees being transported on trucks and railroad trains for movement to Rohwer and other camps.

See this item in the Digital Library of the Japanese American Incarceration Films at: https://archive.org/details/010114Jerome_201710.

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CONTRIBUTOR

Densho

PREFERRED CITATION

Courtesy of Japanese American Film Preservation Project, Densho

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