Minidoka County Warrants, Although little remains of the barbed-wire fences and tar-papered barracks, the Minidoka concentration camp once held over 13,000 Japanese Americans in the Idaho desert. Established in 2002, our mission is to preserve, protect, and educate about the lessons and legacy of the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans at the Minidoka concentration camp during WWII. It also housed a small population from Alaska. Minidoka Internment National Monument was established in 2001 as the 385th unit of the National Park System to commemorate the hardships and sacrifices of Japanese Americans interned there during World War II. Best times to visit, directions, hours, and things to do while you're there. S. Minidoka Internment National Monument, site of a World War II internment camp for Japanese Americans, southern Idaho, U. It commemorates the more than 13,000 Japanese Americans who were imprisoned at the Minidoka War Relocation Center during the Second World War. Located in south-central Idaho, the euphemistically named Minidoka Relocation Center held a largely urban population consisting in large part of Japanese Americans from Seattle, Washington, and Portland, Oregon, as well as elsewhere in Oregon. [4] Visit the Minidoka National Historic Site. yxa, fn2, fc, rg, tglzdx1e, mq1w4, kxlk0, ty33, zbtt, uq,