"Topaz",
58 minutes Produced and directed by Ken Verdoia, this documentary discusses the internment, contains interviews with former internees, and has footage of the camp then and now. (www.kued.org), 1991 $19.95

The Children of the Camps documentary captures the experiences of six Americans of Japanese ancestry who were confined as innocent children to internment camps by the U.S. government during World War II. www.pbs.org/childofcamp/

de Nevers, Klancy Clark The Colonel and the Pacifist Salt Lake City, UT: University of Utah Press, 2004. Story of WWII Internment mastermind Colonel Karl Bendetsen and his neighbor Perry Saito, incarcerated at the Tule Lake Relocation Center.

Arrington, Leonard J. The Price of Prejudice 2nd ed., Delta, UT: Topaz Museum, 1997. Factual account of Topaz with details of internment, agriculture and employment, and closing. Updated with photographs and reprinted by the Topaz Museum.

Hill, Kimi Kodani. Topaz Moon: Art of the Internment. Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 2000. A biography of Chiura Obata who started the art school at Tanforan and Topaz.

Inada, Lawson F. Drawing the Line. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1997. Poetry

Inada, Lawson F. Legends from Camp. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 1992. Poetry.

Inada, Lawson F. ed. Only What We Could Carry. Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 2000. Compilation of varied sorts including government papers, cartoons and personal narratives.

Mori, Toshio. The Chauvinist and other stories. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA, 1979. Short stories written by a former Topaz internee.

Mori, Toshio. Unfinished Message: Selected Works of Toshio Mori. Berkeley, CA: Heyday Books, 2000. More short stories.

Mori, Toshio. Yokohama, California. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1949, 1985. Short stories.

Okubo, Mine Citizen 13660 Seattle, WA: Univ. of Washington Press, 1946. Personal account of life in Topaz with illustrations of the camp by the author.

Richardson, Susan B., editor. I Call to Remembrance: Toyo Suyemoto's Years of Internment New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2007. Before Suyemoto passed away in 2003, she wrote a memoir of her internment camp experiences with her family and infant son at Tanforan Race Track and, later, at the Topaz Relocation Center in Utah, from 1942 to 1945.

Taylor, Sandra C. Jewel of the Desert: Japanese American Internment at Topaz Berkeley, CA: Univ. of California Press, 1993. The story of San Francisco Bay area Japanese Americans and their forced internment at Topaz, Ut.

The View from Within: Japanese American Art from the Internment Camps, 1942-1945. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA, 1992. History of artists in Topaz and other camps.

Tunnell, Michael O. & George W. Chilcoat The Children of Topaz New York, NY: Holiday House, 1996. Based on the diary kept by a third grade class in Topaz.

Uchida, Yoshiko Journey to Topaz New York, NY: Scribner, 1971. Story of an eleven year old and her family as they are forced from their home and sent to Topaz, Utah.

Uchida, Yoshiko Desert Exile Seattle, WA: Univ. of Washington Press, 1989. Personal account of her family's uprooting from Berkeley, Ca. to Topaz

Burton, Jeffery F., Mary M. Farrell, Florence B. Lord, Richard W. Lord Confinement and Ethnicity Western Archeological and Conservation Center, National Park Service, US Dept of Interior 1999. Provides an overview of the tangible remains currently left at the sites of the Japanese American internment during World War II.

Dempster, Brian Komei, ed. From our Side of the Fence San Francisco, CA: Kearny Street Workshop, 2001. Writing of former internees, fifty years after internment.

Gesensway, Deborah and Mindy Roseman. Beyond Words: Images from America's Concentration Camps. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1987. Artwork from many of the camps.

Irons, Peter, ed. Justice Delayed: The Record of the Japanese American Internment Cases. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1989. A record of the appeals of the Supreme Court test cases associated with internment.

Japanese American Citizens League Teachers Curriculum Guide A comprehensive tool to help educators teach about the Internment Camp experience of Japanese Americans during World War II. The contents include material for elementary through high school students and also has a complete listing of other resources. $40, www.jacl.org

Kogawa, Joy. Obasan. Boston: David R. Godine, 1981. Novel about Canadian internment.

Myers, Joan and Gary Okihiro. Whispered Silences: Japanese Americans and World War II. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1996. Photographs taken from all of the camps forty years after internment. Essay by Gary Okihiro.

Okada, John. No-No Boy. San Francisco: Combined Asian American Resources Project, Inc., 1976. Fictional account of an internee who answered "No-No" to the loyalty questions.

Personal Justice Denied: Report of the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians. Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office, 1982. Record of Congressional hearings in internment.

Sasaki, R.A. The Loom and other stories. St. Paul, Minnesota: Greywolf Press, 1991. Short stories.

Weglyn, Michi. Years of Infamy: The Untold Story of America's Concentration Camps. New York: Morrow Quill Paperbacks, 1976. Thorough account of internment including Crystal City, Texas.

The Harada House and the story of the Harada Family embody local, state, national, and international issues of civil and individual rights, democracy, immigration, assimilation, and citizenship.

Topaz Japanese-American Relocation Center Digital Collection at USU: School yearbooks and literary magazines written and illustrated by Topaz residents offer insight into the life, activities, and feelings of the Japanese Americans held there from 1942-1945.

Great Basin Heritage Route Website - www.greatbasinheritage.org
The history and heritage of the central area of the Great Basin, which includes Millard County, Utah; White Pine County, Nevada; and the Ely Shoshone and Duckwater Indian reservations.

A More Perfect Union,
Japanese Americans and the US Constitution Interactive site with text, photographs, personal recollections produced by the Smithsonian Institute

The National Archives Database,
Out of the nearly 200, 000 data files in its holdings, NARA has selected approximately 475 of them for public searching through AAD. These records identify specific persons, geographic areas, organizations, and dates, covering a wide variety of civilian and military functions.

The CLEFP Network
The CLPEF network lists projects funded by the Civil Liberties Public Education Fund with links to other internment and Japanese American sites.

Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites
1999 survey of all internment sites, including assembly centers and isolation sites conducted by the US Dept of Interior.

Conscience and the Constitution
Companion website to documentary about a handful of young Japanese Americans who refused to be drafted from the American concentration camp at Heart Mountain, Wyoming.

Densho Educational Website,
Densho's urgent mission is to preserve the personal testimonies of Japanese Americans who were unjustly incarcerated during World War II.

DEUNDE presents: Art and Survival in a Time of Paranoia,
Dust Storm tells a story of the internment of Japanese Americans during the second world war, using the art of Chiura Obata.

Rabbit in the Moon
Companion PBS website to "Rabbit in the Moon," a documentary about the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.

Heart Mountain, Wyoming

Manzanar, California
First camp to be administered by the National Park Service

Granada, Amache, Colorado

Tule Lake, Newell, California

Colorado River, Poston, Arizona

Ft. Missoula Detention Center Project,
Target Range School, Missoula, Mt Information on the Detention Center which held 1000 Japanese and 1000 Italian nationals during WWII.

National Park Service: Parknet,
Information and links related to internment camps that have been made into national parks.

The Great Nature of Chiura Obata,
Learn from the teachings and artwork of Chiura Obata, from The Sierra Nevada Wilderness Education project.

National Japanese American Museum,
Los Angeles, Ca The mission of the JANM is to promote understanding and appreciation of America's ethnic and cultural diversity by preserving, interpreting and sharing the experiences of Japanese Americans.

Asian American Curriculum Project,
San Mateo Ca. Non-profit, volunteer source for a wide variety of educational materials about Asian Americans including Japanese Americans and internment.

National Japanese American Historical Society
A non-profit membership supported organization dedicated to the preservation, promotion, and dissemination of materials relating to the history and culture of Japanese Americans

National Asian American Telecommunications Association NAATA's mission is to present stories that convey the richness and diversity of the Asian Pacific American experience to the broadest audience possible. We do this by funding, producing, distributing and exhibiting films, videos and new media.