Category:Santa Anita Assembly Center

**Santa Anita assembly center**
	a makeshift concentration camp set up by the U.S. Army in 1942 to incarcerate people of Japanese ancestry
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	34° 08′ 19″ N, 118° 02′ 46″ W
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The Santa Anita Assembly Center is one of the places Japanese Americans were held during World War II. It was designated a California Historic Landmark on May 13, 1980. The Santa Anita Assembly Center is located in what is now the Santa Anita Racetrack in Arcadia, California in Los Angeles County.

The Santa Anita Assembly Center opened on March 27, 1942, and closed on October 27, 1942.
Most of the Santa Anita Assembly Center internees were transferred to Heart Mountain War Relocation Center and Granada War Relocation Center in Colorado, and Rohwer War Relocation Center and Jerome War Relocation Center in Arkansas.
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California Historical Landmark No. 934.07 — Santa Anita Assembly Center

This is a category about a place or building that is listed on the California Historical Landmark listing in the United States. Its reference number is

934.

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Japanese American internment processing in San Francisco‎ (2 C, 3 F)

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NARA images of the Santa Anita Assembly Center‎ (87 F)

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"Table 1. Wartime Properties Identified in Public Law 102-248" (PART 1), from- Japanese Americans in World War II, a National Historic Landmark theme study (page 15 crop).jpg 2,188 × 2,704; 647 KB
"Wartime Civil Control Administration Assembly Centers map, from- Japanese Americans in World War II, a National Historic Landmark theme study (page 118 crop) (cropped).jpg 1,249 × 1,827; 115 KB
"Wartime Civil Control Administration Assembly Centers map, from- Japanese Americans in World War II, a National Historic Landmark theme study (page 118 crop).jpg 2,001 × 2,501; 281 KB
Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. This portrait painting was made at the Santa Anita . . . - NARA - 539296.jpg 3,000 × 2,466; 3.92 MB
Japanese American women doing hula, Santa Anita Assembly Ctr cph.3c33814.jpg 3,672 × 2,896; 3.62 MB
Japanese American women playing softball, Santa Anita Assembly Ctr cph.3c33812.jpg 3,671 × 2,962; 3.23 MB
Japanese Americans leaving Santa Anita Assembly Ctr cph.3c33633.jpg 4,617 × 3,665; 6.19 MB
Russellevacuation5.jpg 1,024 × 726; 241 KB
San Francisco, California. Evacuees of Japanese descent among a contingent of 664, first to be remov . . . - NARA - 536417.jpg 2,883 × 3,000; 1.18 MB
Santa Anita reception center, Arcadia, Calif. Apr. 1942. Attendants registering arrivals and assigning them, family by family, to their new quarters. These evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be transferred later to War Relocation Author.jpg 1,024 × 848; 470 KB
Santa-Anita-Assembly-Center-38735.jpg 5,742 × 4,153; 11.27 MB
Santa-Anita-Assembly-Center-8c24504.jpg 1,024 × 772; 471 KB

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