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The loyalty questionnaire and subsequent recruitment efforts proved especially unpopular in the Jerome camp, located 27 miles south of Rohwer. Only 2 percent of eligible men in Jerome (and in Rohwer) enlisted. Some 2,147 others, a quarter of Jerome's population, were classified as "disloyal" after giving unfavorable responses to the questionnaire.
The museum features exhibits regarding the area history of Japanese American internment in the 1940s when more than 17,000 Japanese Americans were housed at nearby Rohwer War Relocation Center and Jerome War Relocation Center during World War II.
Jerome is located 30 miles (48.3 km) southwest of the Rohwer War Relocation Center, [1] also in the Delta. Due to the large number of Japanese Americans detained there, these two camps were briefly ranked as the fifth- and sixth-largest towns in Arkansas. Both camps were served by the same rail line.
They were taken from Sacramento or nearby across much of the country as children.
Later, she was incarcerated at Jerome and Rohwer, Arkansas. [4] Yoshinaga-Herzig later moved to New York, where she became a community activist in the 1960s and was a member of Asian Americans for Action (AAA), the first Asian American political organization on the East Coast. It included Asian American activists Bill and Yuri Kochiyama. [4]
The War Relocation Authority operated ten Japanese-American internment camps in remote areas of the United States during World War II. The War Relocation Authority (WRA) was a United States government agency established to handle the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
Also interned at Rohwer. Harry Urata (1917–2009), a music teacher; Jimi Yamaichi member of the 27 draft resisters of conscience, [26] a Tule Lake survivor who shares his memories at the biennial pilgrimages, and promotes preservation of the site. Koho Yamamoto (born 1922), an American artist . Also interned at Topaz.
Ted Takayuki Tanouye (Japanese: 田上 隆行, [1] November 14, 1919 – September 6, 1944) was a Japanese American soldier in the United States Army who posthumously received the United States military's highest decoration for bravery—the Medal of Honor—for his actions in World War II.