Japanese American Internment

The National Archives has extensive holdings including photos, videos, and records that chronicle the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Many are online in the National Archives Catalog, including thousands of photographs. 

Featured Article

News Feature Article: Correcting the Record on Dorothea Lange's Japanese Internment Photos

Prologue Magazine

How an eagle feels when his wings are clipped and caged: Relocation Center Newspapers Describe Japanese American Internment in World War II 

The Past Recaptured? The Photographic Record of the Internment of Japanese-Americans  

Return to Sender:  U.S. Censorship of Enemy Alien Mail in World War II

A "New" FDR Emerges: Historians, Teachers, Authors Take a Fresh, Sometimes Critical, Look at Roosevelt

U.S. Censorship of Enemy Alien Mail in World War II

 

Slideshow

Members of the Mochida Family Awaiting Evacuation.

Constructing quarters for evacuees.

Internment working on crops.

Japanese quarter in San Francisco.

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Videos

Nationwide and Online Exhibits

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Japanese American Internment, 1942

Boarding trains for Manzanar relocation, 1942. Japanese Americans arrive at  Santa Anita (California).

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War! Japanese American Internment

Japanese Americans arrive at the Santa Anita (California) Assembly Center before being moved inland to an internment camp.

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Japan Surrenders

The Japanese envoys sign the Instrument of Surrender on board the U.S.S. Missouri. Record Group 80-G General Records of the U.S. Navy

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Righting a Wrong

The exhibition will explore this history through the Executive Order 9066 document on loan from the National Archives 

Press Releases

Press Release: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library Japanese Internment Photo Exhibition

Press Release: Smithsonian Marks 75th Anniversary of Executive Order 9066