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Justice Department detention camps. These camps often held German-American and Italian-American detainees in addition to Japanese Americans: [ 1] Crystal City, Texas [ 2] Fort Lincoln Internment Camp. Fort Missoula, Montana. Fort Stanton, New Mexico. Kenedy, Texas. Kooskia, Idaho. Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Sobibor (May 1942 – November 1943). Located near the village of Sobibór, approximately 80 km (50 mi) east of Lublin. [ 4] Treblinka (July 1942 – September 1943). Located near the village of Treblinka, approximately 80 kilometres (50 miles) northeast of Warsaw. [ b][ 5] Majdanek (October 1942 – July 1944).
According to the Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, there were 23 main concentration camps (German: Stammlager), of which most had a system of satellite camps. [1] Including the satellite camps, the total number of Nazi concentration camps that existed at one point in time is at least a thousand, although these did not all exist at the same time.
For a list of aquaria, see List of aquaria in the United States, and for a list of nature centers, see List of nature centers in the United States. Zoos are primarily terrestrial facilities where animals are held in enclosures and displayed to the public for education and entertainment.
Italian prisoners of war working on the Arizona Canal (December 1943) In the United States at the end of World War II, there were prisoner-of-war camps, including 175 Branch Camps serving 511 Area Camps containing over 425,000 prisoners of war (mostly German). The camps were located all over the US, but were mostly in the South, due to the higher expense of heating the barracks in colder areas ...
This is a list of internment and concentration camps, organized by country.In general, a camp or group of camps is designated to the country whose government was responsible for the establishment and/or operation of the camp regardless of the camp's location, but this principle can be, or it can appear to be, departed from in such cases as where a country's borders or name has changed or it ...
The festival was picketed by Camp Trans starting in the 1990s for its exclusionary policy. LGBT advocacy group Equality Michigan boycotted the event in 2014. [7] Michfest drew criticism from the Human Rights Campaign, [8] GLAAD, [9] the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and the National LGBTQ Task Force, among others. The festival held its ...
This is a list of inmates of Manzanar, an American concentration camp in California used during World War II to hold people of Japanese descent. Koji Ariyoshi (1914–1976), a Nisei labor activist. Paul Bannai (1920–2019), an American politician. Frank Chuman (born 1917), a civil rights attorney and author who wrote the Japanese American ...