Central Utah Relocation Center (Topaz)

Utah USA

Independent

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 , 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 west of Delta, Utah, though some lived as caretakers overseeing agricultural land and areas used for light industry and animal husbandry. The site is a U.S. National Historic Landmark.

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Reviewed by
Frank Anders

2 Reviews
3 Helpful

July 01, 2020

This place is worth visiting - if only to remember what happened here. I brought my son to see this and it made an impact on him. Given that we live near San Francisco, and many of the internees were from the Bay Area, he was able to see with his own eyes where Japanese-Americans were forced to relocate during the war - and the vast difference in landscape between San Francisco and central Utah.

https://www.nps.gov/places/central-utah-relocation-center-site.htm

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Reviewed by
Patrick

109 Reviews
20 Helpful

February 14, 2019

Rated 3.0

There's not much explaining what happened here, but it is of most importance nonetheless. Every American should visit the site of a Japanese internment camp as a searing memory of what injustice occurred in the panic of war.

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