page_title: List of Japanese-American internment camps
section_title: Relocation Centers
hierarchical_section_title: List of Japanese-American internment camps / Relocation Centers
caption_attribution_description: Scope and content: The full caption for this photograph reads: Heart Mountain Relocation Center, Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Residents of Japanese ancestry, at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, were quick to grasp the recreational advantages of Wyoming's cold weather. Ponds were constructed and flooded, and former Californians, to whom ice skating was a new sport, were enthusiastically nursing bruises and enjoying the sport.
context_page_description: There were three types of camps for Japanese and Japanese-American civilians in the United States during World War II. Civilian Assembly Centers were temporary camps, frequently located at horse tracks, where Japanese Americans were sent as they were removed from their communities. Eventually, most were sent to Relocation Centers, also known as internment camps. Detention camps housed Nikkei considered to be disruptive or of special interest to the government.
context_section_description: Gila River War Relocation Center, Arizona
  Granada War Relocation Center, Colorado (AKA "Amache")
  Heart Mountain War Relocation Center, Wyoming
  Jerome War Relocation Center, Arkansas
  Manzanar War Relocation Center, California
  Minidoka War Relocation Center, Idaho
  Poston War Relocation Center, Arizona
  Rohwer War Relocation Center, Arkansas
  Topaz War Relocation Center, Utah
  Tule Lake War Relocation Center, California
caption: Heart Mountain Relocation Center, January 10, 1943
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