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Bookmark or Share- A Japanese American Incarceration Camp in ... - Smithsonian MagazineDuring World War II, the site in rural southeastern Colorado was an incarceration camp for Japanese Americans. Amache, also known as the Granada Relocation Center, was one of ten such...
- History & Culture - Amache National Historic Site (U.S. National ... - NPSEarly on, incarcerees began referring to the camp as Amache, after its postal designation. Built to accommodate up to 8,000 people, Amache housed 7,318 Japanese Americans at its peak in 1943. It was the 10th largest population center in Colorado at the time.
- Amache National Historic Site - WikipediaAmache National Historic Site, formally the Granada War Relocation Center but known to the internees as Camp Amache (pronounced a-ma-chee), was a concentration camp for Japanese Americans in Prowers County, Colorado.
- Granada War Relocation Center (Amache) - Colorado EncyclopediaThe federal government built the Granada War Relocation Center, also known as Camp Amache, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor to imprison Japanese Americans during World War II.
- Amache National Historic Site (U.S. National Park Service)Amache, also known as the Granada Relocation Center, near Granada, Colorado was one of ten incarceration sites established by the War Relocation Authority during World War II to unjustly incarcerate Japanese Americans.
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