The Japanese American Internment Map

Yale University Library's Out of the Desert: Resilience as well as Memory inwards Japanese American Internment is an exhibition exploring the internment of Americans of Japanese heritage during World War II.

In the leap as well as summertime of 1942 only about 100,000 persons of Japanese heritage were forcibly relocated from the West Coast as well as incarcerated inwards inland internment camps. The Yale University Library's exhibition draws on the university's extensive materials related to the internment, including internee correspondence, artwork, as well as literature. The exhibition is continuing until Feb 26, 2016.

If y'all can't become far to the library y'all tin explore some of the fabric from the exhibition on the Out of the Desert interactive map. The map shows the place of the temporary assembly centers as well as the internment camps. If y'all pick out an internment military camp on the map y'all tin persuasion some of the university's extensive fabric relating to the camp, including historical photos, contemporary paper reports as well as letters as well as drawings from the camp's internees.