Rohwer Japanese American Relocation Center

The Rohwer internment camp included a 500-acre area for internee living quarters and more than 10,000 acres of surrounding land for farming and timber harvesting. Officially labeled a relocation center, the camps for Japanese Americans during World War II were commonly referred to as concentration camps, a term broadly defined as a place where people are imprisoned because of who they are rather than because they are guilty of any crime. Built as military-style camps, these centers were surrounded by barbed wire and armed guards in watch towers. Today they are also referred to as American concentration camps, internment camps, or incarceration camps.

Arkansas · United States