[PW] Japanese-American Family Identification Numbers

[Ivan Van Laningham]

Hi All--
In about April of 1942, during the internment process, Issei and
Nissei families were given "Family Identification Numbers"; perhaps
the most famous of these numbers is 13660, from Miné Okubo's book,
_Citizen 13660_, detailing her imprisonment in Tanforan and Topaz.

Is there a registry of these ID numbers?  I'm considering setting a
story in Topaz, and I wondered what the maximum number was; I also
wondered how the individuals within each family were referred to,
since the government was obviously much more comfortable referring to
citizens it had imprisoned by number rather than name.

Metta,
Ivan

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