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What is WRA?

WRA is the abbreviation for War Relocation Authority.

WRA records are documents on each individual who had been removed from their homes and taken to concentration camps in America by Executive Order 9066; most of them were Japanese American’s.

These records contain a wealth of information because the Japanese American’s and Japanese nationals were interviewed, and that information was documented. They may contain names of family members in Japan and where the individual emigrated. It some times has personal information of things that may have happened in the camps and letters, as well as the family inventory, a list of property.

United States Executive Order 9066 was a presidential executive order issued during World War II by U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on February 19, 1942 to send Japanese Americans to internment camps.

The WRA records are archived at the National Archives and you may do a request to them for the records. Please register at the forum Nikkei Ancestry: Japanese Genealogy Research to get a PDF file of this form.

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