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Description
A memo from Colonel Karl R. Bendetsen to Milton S. Eisenhower, Director of the War Relocation Authority, describing the temporary assembly centers. The assembly centers were meant to be temporary until locations for the incarceration camps could be decided upon. Accelerated "evacuation" timelines increased pressure on the internment selection process and assembly center facilities. The War Relocation Authority (WRA), together with the Wartime Civil Control Administration (WCCA), the Civil Affairs Division (CAD) and the Office of the Commanding General (OFG) of the Western Defense Command (WDC) operated together to segregate and house some 110,000 men women and children from 1942 to 1945. The collection contains documents and photographs relating to the establishment and administrative workings of the (WDC), the (WRA) and the (WCCA) for the year 1942.
World War II--Administration--War Relocation Authority World War II--Administration World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation') World War II--Temporary Assembly Centers
Source
San Jose State University Department of Special Collections and Archives
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