There were three types of camps for Japanese and Japanese-American civilians in the United States during World War II. Civilian Assembly Centers were temporary camps, frequently located at horse tracks, where Japanese Americans were sent as they were removed from their communities. Eventually, most were sent to Relocation Centers which are now most commonly known as internment camps or incarceration centers. Detention camps housed Nikkei considered to be disruptive or of special interest to the government.
Heart Mountain Relocation Center, January 10, 1943Ruins of the buildings in the Gila River War Relocation Center of Camp ButteHarvesting spinach. Tule Lake Relocation Center, September 8, 1942Nurse tending four orphaned babies at the Manzanar Children's VillageManzanar Children's Village superintendent Harry Matsumoto with several orphan children
These immigration detention stations held the roughly 5,500 men arrested immediately after Pearl Harbor, in addition to several thousand German and Italian detainees, and served as processing centers from which the men were transferred to DOJ or Army camps:[3]
^Burton, J.; Farrell, M.; Lord, F.; Lord, R. Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites, "Temporary Detention StationsArchived November 6, 2014, at the Wayback Machine" (National Park Service, 2000). Retrieved August 13, 2014.
