| Appendix
2: List of Internment Facilities
There were a total of 15 Assembly Centers
and ten Relocation Centers, and these were the only facilities that even
most professional historians know about. But there were in addition 55
Alien Internment Camps around the country, that primarily housed European
internees. Listed here are all the Assembly and Relocation Centers, and
the 19 main Alien Internment Camps. (1)
| Table 6: Assembly
Centers (WCCA/War Relocation Authority) |
| Center |
Type of Residents |
| Mayer, Az. |
Japanese families
|
| Fresno, Ca. |
| Marysville, Ca. |
| Merced, Ca. |
| Pinedale, Ca. |
| Pomona, Ca. |
| Sacramento, Ca. |
| Salinas, Ca. |
| Santa Anita, Ca. |
| Stockton, Ca. |
| Tanforan, Ca. |
| Tulare, Ca. |
| Turlock, Ca. |
| Portland Ore. |
| Puyallup, Wash. |
| Table 7: Relocation
Centers (War Relocation Authority) |
| Center |
Type of Residents |
| Gila,
Az. |
Japanese
families |
| Poston,
Az. |
| Jerome, Ark. |
| Rohwer, Ark. |
| Manzanar, Ca. |
| Tule Lake, Ca. |
| Granada, Colo. |
| Minidoka, Id. |
| Topaz, Utah |
| Heart Mountain,
Wyo. |
| Table
8: Main Alien Internment Camps (INS/Army/DOJ)
(2) |
| Center |
Type of
Residents |
| Fort
McDowell, Angel Island, Ca. (Army) |
Germans, Italians, men only |
| San Pedro Immigration Station,
Ca. (INS) |
Germans, Italians, men only |
| Sharp Park, Ca. (INS) |
Germans, Italians, mostly men |
| Chicago, Ill. Immigration Station
(INS) |
Germans, Italians, men only |
| Fort George G. Meade, Md. (Army) |
Germans, Italians, merchant seamen,
men only |
| Fort Missoula, Mt. (Army) |
Italian seamen |
| Fort Lincoln, Bismarck, N.D. (Army) |
Germans and Italian civilians and
merchant seamen, men only |
| Gloucester City, N.J. (INS) |
Adult males and females |
| Fort Stanton, N.M. (Army) |
Primarily German seamen |
| Ellis Island, N.Y. (INS) |
Germans and Italians |
| Stringtown, Ok. (Army) |
Germans, men only |
| Fort Forrest, Tenn. (Army) |
Germans, Italians, Latin Americans |
| Crystal City, Tx. (INS) |
Families: Germans, Japanese, Italians,
Latin Americans, Indonesians |
| Fort Bliss, Tx. (Army) |
Germans, Italians, men only |
| Fort Sam Houston, Texas (Army) |
Germans, Italians, mostly men |
| Kenedy, Tx. (INS) |
Germans, Japanese, Latin Americans,
mostly men |
| Seagoville, Tx. (INS) |
Single women, South Americans,
some German and Italian families |
| Camp Fort Lewis, Wash. |
Germans, Italians, men only |
| Seattle, Wash. Immigration Station
(INS) |
Germans, Italians, mostly men |
1.
The complete
list of all Alien Internment Camps can be found in Krammer, 1997, 175-176.
2.
Krammer, 1997, 83-84. |