Topaz Internment Camp

Gallery 1

Topaz internment camp football team
P0800 Topaz interment camp family
P0800 Topaz interment camp highschool students
P0800 Topaz high school 40th reunion in San Francisco
P0800 Kogiku and son George Murikami at the Topaz interment camp in front of block 27 barrack

Gallery 2

 

Topaz high school graduation announcement
Topaz high school diploma for George Murikami
Class of 1944 dance card from Topaz high school

 

 

The single internment camp located in Utah was at Topaz, Utah, sixteen miles west of Delta, Utah. Named for a nearby mountain, Topaz was in the middle of an area charitably descibed as a "barren, sand-choked wasteland." The first internees were moved into Topaz in September, 1942, and it was closed in October, 1945. At its peak, Topaz held 9,408 people in barracks of tarpaper and wood.

The items in this exhibit were graciously lent to the University of Utah by George G. Murakami, a young American from Berkeley, California, who was interned in Topaz.

 

 Last Modified 6/4/12