Cover Page

Table of Contents

Abstract

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Essay

Brief History

Gila River

Granada

Heart Mountain

Jerome

Manzanar

Minidoka

Poston

Rohwer

Topaz

Tule Lake

Isolation Centers

Add'l Facilities

Assembly Centers

DoJ and US Army Facilities

Prisons

References

Appendix A

Appendix B

Appendix C

Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites by J. Burton, M. Farrell, F. Lord, and R. Lord

Chapter 11 (continued)
Rohwer Relocation Center

Interpretation

Signs along State Highway 1 direct passersby to the Rohwer Memorial Cemetery (Figure 11.37). The cemetery area is very neat and well kept, recently weeded, and has a few new concrete fence posts. In addition to the two relocation-center-era concrete monuments at the cemetery, there are two recent granite monuments (Figure 11.38). One honors the 31 Japanese Americans soldiers from Rohwer who were killed during World War II (Figure 11.39). The second, smaller, monument commemorates the relocation center, and indicates the cemetery is a National Historic Landmark (Figure 11.40).

Figure 11.37. Sign along State Highway 1.

Figure 11.38. Monuments at the Rohwer Cemetery.

The cemetery area was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974 and designated a National Historic Landmark in 1992, due in large part to the efforts of Rosalie Gould, the former mayor of McGehee, who has been very active in researching and preserving the site. Presently, she is working to create a small museum in McGehee to house the various photographs, newspaper articles, and other materials she has collected about the Rohwer and Jerome relocation centers.

Figure 11.39. Recent monument to Japanese American soldiers from Rohwer killed during World War II.	Figure 11.40. National Historic Landmark monument.

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