🕯 Jerome War Relocation Center

The Jerome War Relocation Center is one of ten American concentration camps, where more than 120,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated during World War II, located in southeastern Arkansas, near the town of Jerome in the Arkansas Delta. Open from October 6, 1942, until June 30, 1944, it was the last American concentration camp to open and the first to close. At one point it held as many as 8,497 detainees. After closing, it was converted into a holding camp for German prisoners of war. Few remains of the camp are visible, as the wooden buildings were taken down. The smokestack from the hospital incinerator still stands.