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The Jerome County Historical Society Museum, located at 222 N Lincoln, Jerome ID has a complete set of the "Minidoka Irrigator", the relocation camp newspaper written by internees.

The Twin Falls Public Library has a partial set of the "Minidoka Irrigator" on microfilm.

Idaho Yesterdays, a quarterly journal published by the Idaho State Historical Society, has featured the following articles about Japanese immigration and the WWII Japanese American Internment:
"The Japanese American Experience in Idaho" by Robert C. Sims, Spring 1978.

"Idaho Farmer, Japanese Diarist-Cultural Crossings in the Intermountain West" by Eric Walz, Fall 1995.

"My Dear Bishop: A Report From Minidoka" by Jane Chase, Summer 2000.

Idaho Magazine featured an article entitled ñInternmentî on the Minidoka Relocation Center in its January 2002 issue.

Confinement and Ethnicity: An Overview of WWII Japanese American Relocation Sites published by the United States Dept of the Interior is currently an online book.

Twin Falls Public Library
Books About Minidoka Relocation Center:

American Diary: an Exhibition of Paintings by Roger Shimomura
940.5472S (also IR)

'Evacuation Diary' Tells of Relocation, by Yoichi Matsuda
940.5472M (also IR)

The Fence at Minidoka, producer and writer, Barbara Tanabe
VCR T-32 (video)

History of the Japanese-American Relocation Center at Hunt, Minidoka County, Idaho, by Donald E. Hausler (unpublished Master's thesis)
940.5472H (also IR)

Hunt for Idaho: Evacuees 1942-1945 and homesteaders 1947-1949 T.P. Minidoka Prisoner of War Camp 1942-1945, by Bessie M. Shrontz Roberts-Wright
IR 940.5472R

Japanese Relocation Center Remembered in Film, by Dixie Dixon
IR 940.5472D

Journey to Minidoka: the Paintings of Roger Shimomura
IR 940.5472S

Minidoka Interlude, Minidoka Relocation Center (Idaho)
940.5472M (also IR)

Minidoka Internment National Monument, Idaho
940.5472M (also IR)

POW Articles (Various Newspapers, South Idaho Press, Various Dates)
IR 940.547P

Relocation Center Diary, by Arthur Meredith Kleinkopf
940.547K (also IR)

The Salvage: Japanese American Evacuation Resettlement
IR 940.5472T

Books about WWII Japanese American Internment

American and Japanese Relocation in World War II: Fact, Fiction & Fallacy, by Lillian Baker Revisionist history at its worst.
940.53B (also IR)

Behind Barbed Wire: the Imprisonment of Japanese Americans During World War II, by Daviel S. Davis
940.54D

Beyond Words: Images from America's Concentration Camps, by Deborah Gesensway
940.5472G

Born in Seattle: the Campaign for Japanese American Redress, by Robert Sadamu Shimabukuro
940.53S

By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese Americans, by Greg Robinson
940.5308R

Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

Children of the Relocation Camps, by Catherine A. Welch
J940.53W

The Children of Topaz: the Story of a Japanese American Internment Camp, by Michael O. Tunnell
J940.531T

Democracy on Trial: the Japanese-American Evacuation and Relocation in World War II, by Page Smith
940.53S

Desert Exile: the Uprooting of a Japanese American Family, by Yoshiko Uchida
921Uchida (also IR)

Executive Order 9066: the Internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans
IR940.547C

A Fence Away from Freedom: Japanese Americans and World War II, by Ellen Levine
J940.53L

Fighting for Honor: Japanese American and World War II, by Michael L. Cooper
J940.53C

Free to Die for their Country: the Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II, by Eric L. Muller
940.5316M

I am an American: a True Story of Japanese Internment, by Jerry Stanley
J940.53S

Imprisoned Apart: the World War II Correspondence of an Issei Couple, by Louis Fiset
940.5308F (also IR)

The Invisible Thread, by Yoshiko Uchida
921 Uchida

Japanese American, From Relocation to Redress
940.5314J

Justice at War, by Peter H. Irons
342.73I

Life in a Japanese American Internment Camp, by Diane Yancey
J940.531Y

Magic: the Untold Story of U.S. Intelligence and the Evacuation of Japanese Residents from the West Coast During WW II, by David Lowman
940.5487L

Manzanar = [Ringoen], by John Armor
940.5472A

Nisei Daughter, by Monica Itoi Sone
921 Sone (also IR)

Stubborn Twig: Three Generations in the Life of a Japanese American Family, by Lauren Kessler
920 Kessler

Topaz Moon: Chiura Obata's Art of the Internment, by Chiura Obata
921 Obata

Whispered Silences: Japanese American and World War II, by Gary Y. Okihiro
IR 940.530

Fiction Books about WWII Japanese Americans Internment

Baseball Saved Us, by Ken Mochizuki
E Mochizuki (also IR)

The Journal of Ben Uchida, Citizen 13559: Mirror Lake Internment Camp, by Barry Denenberg
J Denenberg

The Magic of Ordinary Days, by Ann Howard Creel
LP Creel

Silent Honor, by Danielle Steel
Steel

Why She Left Us: a novel, by Rahna R. Rizzuto
Rizzuto