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 5 (continued)
Granada Relocation Center

Central (Fenced) Area
Western Area

Figure 5.54 Graves at the Granada Relocation Center cemetery.

The fenced western portion of the central area encompasses the landfill, sewage treatment plant, coal storage area, root cellar, and the cemetery. Today the dump for the town of Granada is where the buildings of the sewage treatment plant were located.

The relocation center landfill has no apparent vandalism. Abundant artifacts include numerous glass bottles and ceramics, but not many Japanese ceramics (Figures 5.50 and 5.51). Adjacent to the landfill there is a large can and ceramic dump that likely dates to the abandonment of the center (Figure 5.52). The ponds and a few concrete walls from the sewage disposal system are still present in the northwest portion of the center (Figure 5.53). No evidence of the coal storage area was observed, but the root cellar is indicated by a slight depression, which even shows up on the USGS topographic map.

The WRA blueprint indicates that the original access to the cemetery was via a curving road approaching from the north, but the cemetery is now reached by an east-west road from the southwest corner of the evacuee housing area. Within a large fenced area at the cemetery there is a recent memorial monument, a small building, and a smaller fenced area with nine marked burials (Figures 5.54 and 5.55). The current grave markers are all of the same design and were apparently added in recent years, including one marker bearing the inscription "Evacuees Unknown."

The small building at the cemetery has a concrete foundation, brick walls, and a wood frame and corrugated metal roof. It is located where a "columbarium" is depicted on the September 1944 WRA map, just west of the grave sites. The building was apparently constructed by evacuees to store cremated remains; shortly before the camp was closed evacuees placed a polished granite slab inside to honor those who died at Granada. The slab is inscribed with Japanese text and the date September 1945 in English (Figure 5.56). The Japanese text reads "Memorial tower established in Showa 20 (1945) by the Japanese at Amache Relocation Center. The slab is chipped in several areas where rifle slugs have struck the surface.

Photo Album

Continued

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