Cool gray city of love5/13/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The internees’ new home was a bleak, unfinished compound on an alkaline desert plain plagued by wind and dust. By October, the camp had reached its maximum capacity of 8,232. The first trainload of 502 internees arrived at Topaz on Sept. (My father and his family, from the Central Valley, were interned at Camp Granada in southeastern Colorado.) ![]() The camps, run by the War Relocation Authority (WRA), were scattered across desolate inland areas in California, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming and Colorado. that held a total of about 120,000 people of Japanese descent from the West Coast. Topaz was one of 10 wartime concentration camps in the U.S. The camp became known as Topaz, after a nearby mountain. After six months, the internees were loaded onto trains and sent on a two-day journey to the Central Utah Relocation Center, near the small town of Delta. The previous Portals described how in April 1942, 7,800 Bay Area Nikkei - people of Japanese ancestry - were imprisoned in horse stalls and other makeshift shelters at the Tanforan Racetrack in San Bruno. The photo is from the book "Building a Community: The Story of Japanese Americans in San Mateo County." LIZ HAFALIA/SFC Show More Show Less 2 of2 The Topaz internment camp in Topaz, in Utah's bleak Sevier Desert, 140 miles southwest of Salt Lake City is shown in this 1943 photo. This photo of the Topaz, Utah Relocation Center, where many San Mateo Japanese Americans were housed during the war. ![]()
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