Legacies of Nikkei Incarcerees Connect
LINC Database
Legacies of Nikkei Incarcerees Connect (LINC) is a website that enables the public to search for Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II.
The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation created LINC with the collaboration of Densho to make it easier for former incarcerees, descendants, historians, researchers, and the general public to track the journeys of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were forced from their homes on the West Coast and into a series of incarceration sites around the country during World War II. LINC is also part of the educational efforts by Heart Mountain and its partners at the Amache Alliance, Historical Museum of Fort Missoula, Friends of Minidoka, and the Topaz Museum to spread the teaching about the Japanese American incarceration to a wider audience.
Users of the LINC platform can do the following:
- Search for all people incarcerated at any of the 10 War Relocation Authority camps
- Search for any incarcerees born on a certain day
- Search for all incarcerees born on a certain day
- Look for where incarcerees lived before the war and where they moved after they left camp
- And many more details
Please contact us at info@heartmountain.org if you have any questions.