Jerome War Relocation Center
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jerome-war-relocation-center-203-9205664
title:
Jerome War Relocation Center
text:
The Jerome War Relocation Center was a Japanese American internment camp located in southeastern Arkansas, near the town of Jerome in the Arkansas Delta. Open from October 6, 1942, until June 30, 1944, it was the last American concentration camp to open and the first to close. At one point it held as many as 8,497 detainees. After closing, it was converted into a holding camp for German prisoners of war. Today, few remains of the camp are visible, as the wooden buildings were taken down. The smo
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Detainee camp in Arkansas, United States
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_War_Relocation_Center
date created:
2006-06-23T05:12:36Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T16:38:01Z
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