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The camp opened on August 11, when the first Japanese Americans arrived by train from the Pomona, Santa Ana, and Portland assembly centers.. The camp would hold a total of 13,997 Japanese Americans over the next three years, with a peak population of 10,767, making it the third-largest "town" in Wyoming before it closed on November 10, 1945.[3]

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Tom Parker - Typical scene in the Community Enterprise Stores at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center. Heart Mountain, Wyoming, 1942

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Interview

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Interview with George Takei, internee at Rohwer Relocation Center in Arkansas

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Japanese American National Museum: Richard Murakami - Heart Mountain Barracks

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A World War II American concentration camp barrack from Heart Mountain, Wyoming that was used to house Japanese Americans is part of the permanent collection of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles. Volunteer docent Richard Murakami explains why this barrack is significant to him, his family and community.

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Internment camp

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Created August 2008 to help teachers with U.S. and Wyoming state history.

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The Heart Mountain War Relocation Center, named after nearby Heart Mountain and located midway between the towns of Cody and Powell in northwest Wyoming, was one of ten concentration camps used for the internment of Japanese Americans evicted from the West Coast Exclusion Zone during World War ll by executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in December 1941. In 1988 and 1992 Congress passed laws to apologize to Japanese Americans for the injustices during the war and to pay compensation to survivors of the camps and their descendants. It was located in the state of Wyoming. Its nearest town was

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Heart Mountain - Wyoming's Japanese Internment Camp