Honouliuli

U.S. National Park Service

The Honouliuli Internment Camp, Hawaiʻi's largest and longest-operating internment camp, opened in 1943 and closed in 1946.

HONOULIULI NATIONAL MONUMENT

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Not long after the United States suffered the loss of 2,403 lives in under two hours on the island of Oahu, a cold wind of anger tainted by prejudice washed over the United States. Japan was the perpetrator of the devastation left behind after the Dec. 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, but many Americans …

Join the Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i and the National Park Service for a visit to the Honouliuli National Monument, Hawai‘i’s largest and longest operating World War II detention camp.  Walk the historic site, visit landmarks at the site and learn the personal stories of Japanese American prisoners and their families. Site tours are usually scheduled on the second

Honouliuli Education Center The Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i (JCCH) was proud to officially open the new Honouliuli National Monument – JCCH Education Center on October 22 with Shintō and Buddhist blessings and congratulatory remarks from some of Hawai‘i’s elected officials. Families of former Honouliuli internees were in attendance to witness the blessing and

Located on the island of Oahu, the Honouliuli internment camp was one of 17 confinement sites in Hawai’i during World War II. The Honouliuli Internment Camp opened in 1943 and was the last, largest, and longest-used such site in the state. Honouliuli is one of four national park sites that preserves the history of internment during World War II and that of the thousands of civilians--primarily Japanese and Japanese Americans--who were detained for years in violation of their civil rights based solely on their ancestry. Other national park sites that preserve World War II internment camps are Manzanar National Historic Site in California, Minidoka National Historic Site in Idaho and Washington, and the Tule Lake Unit of the World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument in California. Photograph by R. H. Lodge. Courtesy of Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai'i / AR 19 Collection.

ESTABLISHMENT OF THE HONOULIULI NATIONAL MONUMENT   - - - - - - -   BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

IT’S OFFICIAL. HONOULIULI IS NOW A NATIONAL MONUMENT.

President Obama declared the site of the Honouliuli Internment Camp in Hawaii a national monument on February 14th, 2015. Japanese-Americans and immigrants were sent to the camp, and others like it throughout the U.S.,...

Where: Waipahu, Oahu, Hawaii What: Site of World War II internment camp When: Established February 2015; not yet open to the public Why: The

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Honouliuli National Monument is a park and is nearby to Honouliuli Gulch and Pālāwai Gulch. Honouliuli National Monument from Mapcarta, the free map.

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