Topaz 1942-1946

Topaz 1942-1946 (HM9J)

Location: Delta, UT 84624 Millard County
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Country: United States of America
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N 39° 21.157', W 112° 34.69'

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Central Utah WRA Relocation Center

Fifteen miles west at Abraham is the location of the bleak desert site of a concentration camp, one of ten in Western America, in which 110,000 persons of Japanese ancestry were interned against their will during World War II. They were the victims of wartime hysteria, racial animosity, and economic opportunism on the West Coast. Confined behind barbed wire fence and guarded by armed sentries and held for no justifiable reason, the internees, two-thirds of whom were American citizens, and the majority of whom were women and children, not only endured the bitter physical discomforts of the desert heat and cold, but sustained a shocking affront to their sense of justice and fair play and human dignity. May this grim episode of basic American principles gone astray remind us to work for understanding and goodwill and justice in an enlightened American today.

The former residents of Topaz remember with grateful appreciation the friendliness and understanding with which the people of Delta received us during the period of our trial and despair.
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Date Added Monday, October 6th, 2014 at 3:22am PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)12S E 364021 N 4357095
Decimal Degrees39.35261667, -112.57816667
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 39° 21.157', W 112° 34.69'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds39° 21' 9.42" N, 112° 34' 41.40" W
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Area Code(s)435
Closest Postal AddressAt or near 100-164 US-6, Delta UT 84624, US
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