Japanese American Relocation: The Central Utah Relocation Center (Topaz)
Channel: Alyson Griggs
Date: 2020-03-24

In 1942, after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, the Western Defense Command evacuated over 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast, the vast majority of whom were American citizens. The government moved the evacuees to "Relocation Centers" scattered across the Western United States. This video looks at the living conditions in at the Topaz relocation center as well as some Utahns' responses to Japanese American relocation.