Amache Resources

If you are interested in finding out more about Amache or the other Japanese Internment Camps in the United States, check out these resources:

Web Sites

amache.org

densho.org

Amache National Historic Site Act

Amache National Historic Site Designation

Videos

Camp Amache [videorecording] : the story of an American tragedy

Come See the Paradise [DVD]

Unfinished Business – The Japanese-American Internment Cases [DVD]

Nonfiction Books

  • The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps 1942-1946, by Delphine Hirasuna
  • Beauty behind barbed wire: The arts of the Japanese in our war relocation camps, by Allen H. Eaton; Foreword By Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Behind Barbed Wire: Japanese-American Internment Camp Newspapers Library of Congress
  • Born free and equal, by Ansel Adams
  • Citizen 13660, by Mine Okubo
  • Dear Miss Breed: True stories of the Japanese American incarceration during World War II and a librarian who made a difference, by Joanne Oppenheim
  • Desert exile : the uprooting of a Japanese American family, by Yoshiko Uchida
  • Enduring conviction, by Fred Korematsu
  • Facing the mountain: a true story of Japanese American heroes in World War II, by Daniel James Brown
  • Farewell to Manzanar, by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
  • Go For Broke: The Nisei Warriors of World War II Who Conquered Germany, Japan, and American Bigotry, by C. Douglas Sterner
  • I am an American, by Jerry Stanley
  • I call to remembrance : Toyo Suyemoto’s years of internment, Susan B. Richardson, ed.
  • In defense of justice, by Joseph Kirihara
  • Kiyo’s Story: A Japanese-American Family’s Quest for the American Dream, by Kiyo Sato
  • Last witnesses: Reflections on the wartime internment of Japanese Americans, by Erica Harth
  • Only what we could carry, by Lawson Fusao Inada
  • Out Of The Frying Pan, by Bill Hosokawa
  • Seen and unseen, by Elizabeth Partridge
  • They called us enemy, by George Takei
  • Topaz Moon: Chiura Obata’s Art of the Internment, by Kimi Kodani Hill
  • The train to Crystal City: FDR’s secret prisoner exchange program and America’s only family internment camp during World War II, by Jan Jarboe Russell
  • They called us enemy George Takei
  • Topaz Moon: Chiura Obata’s Art of the Internment Kimi Kodani Hill
  • The train to Crystal City: FDR’s secret prisoner exchange program and America’s only family internment camp during World War II Jan Jarboe Russell