Topaz Could See Millions from Congress for Restoration

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(KCPW News) The internment camp in Delta, Utah which housed eight-thousand Japanese Americans during World War II could be restored with millions of dollars set aside by Congress. Before adjourning, Congress approved 38-million dollars this week to be used at ten such internment camps.

Currently, the history of Topaz is housed in rented space in another Delta museum.

Board President Jane Beckwith says the camp will soon become a National Historic Landmark, which would help it qualify for the newly-appropriated money to build a Topaz museum. She says the museum is an important way to preserve the story of the camp and the quote "failings of Democracy."

Topaz was opened in September 1942, less than a year after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.

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