This list of Prisoner of War Camps, Italian Service Unit Camps, and Prisoner of War Hospitals is based on weekly reports located on NARA microfilm #66-538 (population lists June 1942-June 1946). Additional locations based on newspapers, interviews, and other NARA records (at College Park and Regional Archives).

The POW Camps in New Jersey during World War II included:

•Belle Mead, Somerset County, NJ (base camp)
•Bridgeton, Cumberland County, NJ (branch camp under Dix, NJ)
•Caven Point Army Depot, Jersey City, Hudson County, NJ (branch camp under Kilmer, NJ), now a US Army Reserve Base
•Centerton, Salem County, NJ (branch camp under Dix, NJ)
•Dias Creek, Cape May County, NJ (branch camp under Dix, NJ)
•Dix (Fort John Adams), Burlington County, NJ (base camp)
•Glassboro, Gloucester County, NJ (branch camp under Dix, NJ)
•Jersey City Quartermaster Supply Depot, Hudson County, NJ (base camp), see Somerville
•Kilmer (Camp Joyce), New Brunswick, Middlesex County, NJ (base camp)
•Monmouth (Fort), Monmouth County, NJ
•Parvin State Park, Salem County, NJ (branch camp under Dix, NJ, sometimes DuPont, DE)
•Port Johnson Terminal, Bayonne, Hudson County, NJ
•Raritan Arsenal, Metuchen, Middlesex County, NJ
•Somerville Quartermaster Supply Depot, Somerset County, NJ (base camp)
•Tilton General Hospital, Fort Dix, Burlington County, NJ

Enemy alien internment camp:
•Gloucester City INS Detention Facility, NJ (Italians)

Cemeteries:
•Finn’s Point National Cemetery, Finn’s Point, Salem County, NJ

For more information about these camps, please see:

www.weltkriegsopfer.de

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