Topaz War Relocation Center
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topaz-war-relocation-center-209-2636423
title:
Topaz War Relocation Center
text:
The Topaz War Relocation Center, also known as the Central Utah Relocation Center (Topaz) and briefly as the Abraham Relocation Center, was an American concentration camp in which Americans of Japanese descent and immigrants who had come to the United States from Japan, called Nikkei were incarcerated. President Franklin Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 in February 1942, ordering people of Japanese ancestry to be incarcerated in what were euphemistically called "relocation centers" like Top
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
United States historic place
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topaz_War_Relocation_Center
date created:
2006-03-23T07:42:47Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T14:39:13Z
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