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The camp opened on October 6th, 1942. It closed on June 30, 1944. Jerome Relocation Center - Encyclopedia of Arkansas, www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2399.

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The piece of Arkansas history had reached a population of 8,497 at one point in time with 31% of the population being school age children (2,483). Jerome Relocation Center - Encyclopedia of Arkansas, www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2399.

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The Japanese Relocation camp is placed in Southeastern Arkansas near the town of Jerome which was half-a-mile away. Jerome Relocation Center - Encyclopedia of Arkansas, www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2399.

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This video explains what the relocation center was like in the early 1940s.

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[Home Movie: 010114: Jerome, Arkansas Relocation Center, ca. 1944] : Lynn, Charles R. (?) : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive

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Home movie shot at the Jerome (Arkansas) Relocation Center, ca. June 1944. Jerome was the last concentration camp for Japanese Americans to open and the first...

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Early Photos of Jerome War Relocation Center

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Early Photos of Jerome War Relocation Center

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This photo being one of many, taken on June 16th, 1944 by Charles E. Mace is showing students of Denson High School who are being move to distant centers, say goodbye to their classmates who are being taken by bus to the Rowher Center. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Closing_of_the_Jerome_Relocation_Center,_Denson,_Arkansas._Students_of_the_Denson_High_School_who_a_._._._-_NARA_-_539641.jpg

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This picture is a map of the camp back 1942.

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Sam Mibu being one of the many Japanese-American people to be put in the camps.

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Interview with Sam Mibu, internee at Jerome Relocation Center in Arkansas

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When we did our research about Jerome we found a little interesting fact about the camp. After being the first camp to close down, Jerome was used as a German POW (Prisoner of War) until the end of war in Europe. http://www.encyclopediaofarkansas.net/encyclopedia/entry-detail.aspx?entryID=2399

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A quite interesting interview with fellow Arkansans, Charlotte Schexnaydar & Frances Hopmann as they shares their story on living close to the camp and what their fellow neighbors' perspective on it. (Charlotte's interview is in the link below.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAwO5l-qg14

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Interview with Frances Hopmann, Arkansan living near Rohwer Relocation Center

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In this interview, Frances Hopmann discusses how Arkansans reacted to the internment of Japanese Americans at Rohwer Relocation Center. Rohwer was a small community in the Arkansas Delta. Hopmann describes the fear that permeated the town when the U.S. government built an internment camp nearby for thousands of Japanese Americans.