Japanese Internment Camp: Topaz, Utah
Executive Order 9066, as issued by President FDR, forced the relocation of all people of Japanese ancestry, citizens or otherwise, to 10 internment camps scattered amongst the southwest due to unwarranted fears regarding national security.
In this video we visit one of the largest of these camps, located in Topaz, Utah, and discuss this dark history.
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TOPAZ INTERNMENT CAMP
Rick Okabe, Topaz Museum Board Member
A talk about the Topaz Internment Camp near Delta, Utah that held over 11,000 Japanese Americans in a prison camp during World War II. It was one of ten camps that held over 120,000 persons who were never convicted or even charged with any crime
Topaz - Japanese American Internment Camp
A visit to the Topaz site and new museum 5-2-2015
During World War II, the United States forced U.S. citizens and legal residents to leave their homes and live in concentration camps. The reason? These citizens were of Japanese descent, and the government thought they might assist Japan during the war. One of these camps—known as Topaz—was in a windy, dusty location near Delta, Utah.
Topaz
A visit to the site of the Topaz internment camp and new Museum in Delta ,Utah. 5/2/2015
During World War II, the United States forced U.S. citizens and legal residents to leave their homes and live in concentration camps. The reason? These citizens were of Japanese descent, and the government thought they might assist Japan during the war. One of these camps—known as Topaz—was in a windy, dusty location near Delta, Utah. Enka
KBYU Eleven Community Connection: Topaz Museum
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Topaz Mountain near Delta, UT
The area was super windy and the storms kept coming in all night. Lots of rain and wind but really beautiful place to visit and to find topaz and red beryl. I edited the color a little bit to show what it looked like when I was there. My camera didn't quite pick it up. The mountain is a little more pink than it looks like in my video.
Topaz War Relocation Center visit | Farmington Creek trail
March 8: Time index 0 to 1:19:46: Topaz War Relocation Center
March 9: Time index 1:19:46 to 1:52:09: Farmington Creek Trail
March 8: Time index 1:52:09 to the end: slide show for Topaz site visit
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Description of March 8 & 9, 2014 activities.
March 8:
Topaz War Relocation Center visit - 11:31am to about 1:34pm
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quote from Topaz Museum website:
The internment of Americans of Japanese ancestry during WWII was one of the worst violations of civil rights against citizens in the history of the United States. The government and the US Army, falsely citing military necessity, locked up over 110,000 men, women and children in ten remote camps controlled by the War Relocation Administration and four male-only camps controlled by the Justice Department. These Americans were never convicted or even charged with any crime, yet were incarcerated for up to four years in prison camps surrounded by barbed wire and armed guards.
quotes from wikipedia article:
The Topaz War Relocation Center, also known as the Central Utah Relocation Center (Topaz) and (briefly) the Abraham Relocation Center, was a camp which housed Nikkei -- Americans of Japanese descent and immigrants who had come to the United States from Japan. There were a number of such camps used during the Second World War, under the control of the War Relocation Authority.
The camp consisted of 19,800 acres (8,012.8 ha), nearly four times the size of the more famous Manzanar War Relocation Center in California. Most Topaz internees lived in the central residential area located approximately 15 miles (24.1 km) west of Delta, Utah, though some lived as caretakers overseeing agricultural land and areas used for light industry and animal husbandry.
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March 9, at time index 1:19:46.
Farmington Creek Trail - 11:42am to about 12:18pm
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slide show from Topaz site visit, March 8, at time index 1:52:09.
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Topaz Camp @ Rayong by Ole
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Scenes from the Topaz War Relocation Center (Japanese WW2 Camp in the US)
Hidden American history in the arid Utah desert. This place is in a quite remote part of Utah. To reach this place, you drive to the west most populated area on route 6 in Utah (Delta), outside Delta, there are a series of dirt roads one takes to get there. Once there, the camp area is fenced off, with one or two entry points. Roads inside the area are not passable too far in with a passenger car. Most of the buildings have been destroyed, though labeled with signs, some with foundations still intact. Most of the signs in this video were at a 'welcome area' to the site which is off the 'main road'.
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Japanese Internment Camp Topaz Near My Home Town
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The Japanese internment camp Topaz was located near my home town ... Payson, Utah. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor the American government decided to move (relocation) all the Japanese American internment immigrants to internment camps in desolate places. The Japanese internment camp Topaz was located near my home town. These were small cities. They were huge! It's terrible to imagine being uprooted and forced to live in these prison camps. Seems that most of them didn't become resentful though. We're blessed to have these good and smart people here in America now. :)
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Minidoka Relocation Camp National Historic Site
I recently visited the Minidoka National Historic Site, which is managed by the National Park Service. Located near Hunt, Idaho, the Minidoka Japanese Internment Camp was a WWII internal relocation camp. Thousands of Japanese Americans were ordered to report to transports which brought them to remote locations where they lived in bleak conditions, surrounded by barbed wire. Today, the wind howls through the grass and you can almost hear the voices of the departed residents. Minidoka sits as a reminder of this shameful chapter in our nation's history, that we should not repeat it.
This video was made to accompany the article that appears on Splotpublishing.com read that article here:
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Historical photos were taken from:
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Official US Military Photographs and the US Army
National Park Service historical photos
The Asian American Museum Archives
Art and Soul of Topaz Relocation Center
Excerpts from Eagan High School students Michelle Reed and Carly Gutzmann documentary Art and Soul of Topaz Relocation Center -- a 10-minute DVD on art in Japanese internment camps.
Heart Mountain Relocation Camp
The Internet of Experiences: Six words from a Topaz concentration camp survivor
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There are a number of great resources that I used in this video, especially I want to thank the resources at the Uintah Country Library in Vernal Utah.
Firsthand accounts I found recorded in the following books:
Jameson, W.C., 2001. Colorado Treasure Tales. Published by Caxton Press, Caldwell Idaho
Bancroft, Caroline, 1961, Colorado's Lost Gold Mines and Buried Treasure. Published by Big Earth Publishing.
Burton, Doris Karren, 1987. Blue Mountain Folks: Their Lives and Legends. Published by K/P Graphics, Salt Lake City Utah p. 1-312.
Mansfield, Ernest, 1985. Land of the Wild Horses (typewritten accounts bound in a book)
Hughel, Avvon Chew, 1970. The Chew Bunch in Browns Park. Published by Scrimshaw Press p. 1-103.
- includes account of Chew family and their history.
Walker, Queeda Mantle, 2005. The Mantle Ranch: A family’s joys and sorrows in the beautiful, remote Yampa River Canyon. Published by Fred Pruett Books, Boulder Colorado pp. 277
- includes photos of Charles Scroggins used in video, as well as personal recollections of the Mantle family
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Check out more WWII high school yearbooks at ww2yearbooks.org