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Date Original
1945 November 30
Description
This roster compiles the names of internees at Rohwer Relocation Center, where they lived before relocation, where they lived while in Rohwer, and where they are departing to go upon the closing of the internment camp.
Biographical/Historical Note
After December 7, 1943, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the War Relocation Authority (WRA), which selected ten sites in which to imprison more than 110,000 Japanese Americans, over two-thirds of whom were American citizens. Two of these centers where in the Arkansas Delta, one at Rohwer in Desha County, and the other at Jerome in sections of Chicot and Drew counties. These camps were open from October, 1943, to November, 1945, with over 16,000 Japanese Americans having been incarcerated during that period. The Rohwer Center Cemetery in Desha County, Arkansas, is one of only three Japanese relocation center cemeteries still maintained in the United States.
Physical Description
Ledger; 18" x 14.5" x 1"
Subjects
Japanese; Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945; Internment camps; Military camps; World War, 1939-1945--Concentration Camps--United States--Arkansas; Rohwer Relocation Center (Ark.)
Contributor
War Relocation Authority
Geographical Area
McGehee, Desha County (Ark.)
Language
English
Identifier
Rohwer Relocation Center closing roster, MS.000770
Resource Type
Text
Collection
Rohwer Relocation Center closing roster, MS.000770
Publisher
Arkansas State Archives
Contributing Entity
Arkansas State Archives
Recommended Citation
Rohwer Relocation Center closing roster, Arkansas State Archives, Little Rock, Arkansas.
Rights
Use and reproduction of images held by the Arkansas State Archives without prior written permission is prohibited. For information on reproducing images held by the Arkansas State Archives, please call 501-682-6900 or email at state.archives@arkansas.gov.
Disciplines
United States History
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Additional Content
Hazel Retherford papers, MS.000643; Amon Guy Thompson papers, MG04582-MG04586; Austin Smith papers, 1942-1945, MG04350; Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps, MG01299; Community Analysis Reports and Community Analysis Trend Reports of the War Relocation Authority, 1942-1946, MG03846-MG03847; Japanese Camp papers, MG03848-MG03869
