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    Camp Tulelake was a federal work facility and War Relocation Authority isolation center located in Siskiyou County, five miles (8 km) west of Tulelake...
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    Two World War II internment camps were located near Tulelake. Camp Tulelake was an Italian and German prisoner-of-war camp to the west of town, located...
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    Manzanar is the site of one of ten American concentration camps, where more than 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II from...
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    concentration camps were built in more isolated areas. In California Camp Manzanar and Camp Tulelake were built. Executive Order 9066 took effect on March 30, 1942...
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    Tule Lake National Monument (category Internment camps for Japanese Americans)
    during the war. In addition to remains of the concentration camp, this unit includes Tulelake camp, also used during the war; as well as the rock formation...
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    relative populations. German and Italian Americans who were sent to internment camps during the war were sent under the provisions of Presidential Proclamation...
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    Emergency Refugee Shelter in Oswego, New York, which was the only refugee camp set up in the United States for refugees from Europe. The agency was created...
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    SR 89 in Bartle. From Tulelake, the byway continues east for five miles (8.0 km), then turns north and goes past Camp Tulelake before turning west onto...
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    Sharp Park Detention Station (category Internment camps for Japanese Americans)
    internment camp located in northern California on land owned by San Francisco in Pacifica. Open from March 30, 1942, until 1946, the camp was built to...
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    Gila River War Relocation Center (category Internment camps for Japanese Americans)
    The Gila River War Relocation Center was an American concentration camp in Arizona, one of several built by the War Relocation Authority (WRA) during the...
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