This interview was conducted by filmmaker Frank Abe for his 2000 documentary, Conscience and the Constitution, about the World War II resisters of conscience at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead primarily focusing on issues surrounding the resistance movement itself.","extent":"00:01:04","links_children":"ddr-densho-122-23-15","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":165,"namepart":"Art Hansen"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Frank Abe"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Frank Chin"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Frank Abe Collection","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Los Angeles, California","creation":"February 22, 1998","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Art Hansen narrator \nFrank Abe interviewer \nFrank Chin interviewer","download_large":"denshovh-hart-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-122-22-13","model":"segment","index":"1 1476/{'value': 2137, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-122-22-13/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-122-22-13/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-122/denshovh-wmichi-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-122/denshovh-wmichi-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Michi Weglyn Interview Segment 13","description":"
This interview was conducted by filmmaker Frank Abe for his 2000 documentary, Conscience and the Constitution, about the World War II resisters of conscience at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead primarily focusing on issues surrounding the resistance movement itself.","extent":"00:04:55","links_children":"ddr-densho-122-22-13","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":164,"namepart":"Michi Weglyn"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Frank Abe"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Frank Chin"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Frank Abe Collection","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Los Angeles, California","creation":"February 20, 1998","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Michi Weglyn narrator \nFrank Abe interviewer \nFrank Chin interviewer","download_large":"denshovh-wmichi-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-122-22-11","model":"segment","index":"2 1477/{'value': 2137, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-122-22-11/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-122-22-11/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-122/denshovh-wmichi-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-122/denshovh-wmichi-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Michi Weglyn Interview Segment 11","description":"
This interview was conducted by filmmaker Frank Abe for his 2000 documentary, Conscience and the Constitution, about the World War II resisters of conscience at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead primarily focusing on issues surrounding the resistance movement itself.","extent":"00:03:01","links_children":"ddr-densho-122-22-11","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":164,"namepart":"Michi Weglyn"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Frank Abe"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Frank Chin"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Frank Abe Collection","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Los Angeles, California","creation":"February 20, 1998","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Michi Weglyn narrator \nFrank Abe interviewer \nFrank Chin interviewer","download_large":"denshovh-wmichi-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-122-6-2","model":"segment","index":"3 1478/{'value': 2137, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-122-6-2/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-122-6-2/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-122/denshovh-hsam-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-122/denshovh-hsam-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Sam Horino Interview Segment 2","description":"
This interview was conducted by filmmaker Frank Abe for his 2000 documentary, Conscience and the Constitution, about the World War II resisters of conscience at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead primarily focusing on issues surrounding the resistance movement itself.","extent":"00:01:28","links_children":"ddr-densho-122-6-2","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":152,"namepart":"Sam Horino"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Frank Abe"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Frank Abe Collection","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Monterey Park, California","creation":"February 22, 1993","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Sam Horino narrator \nFrank Abe interviewer","download_large":"denshovh-hsam-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-122-8-9","model":"segment","index":"4 1479/{'value': 2137, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-122-8-9/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-122-8-9/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-122/denshovh-kyosh-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-122/denshovh-kyosh-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Yosh Kuromiya Interview Segment 9","description":"Camp sketches
This interview was conducted by filmmaker Frank Abe for his 2000 documentary, Conscience and the Constitution, about the World War II resisters of conscience at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead primarily focusing on issues surrounding the resistance movement itself.","extent":"00:03:57","links_children":"ddr-densho-122-8-9","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":154,"namepart":"Yosh Kuromiya"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Frank Abe"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Frank Chin"}],"topics":[{"term":"World War II -- Concentration camps -- Arts and literature","id":"172"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Frank Abe Collection","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Los Angeles, California","creation":"August 15 & 16, 1993","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Yosh Kuromiya narrator \nFrank Abe interviewer \nFrank Chin interviewer","download_large":"denshovh-kyosh-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-122-29-9","model":"segment","index":"5 1480/{'value': 2137, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-122-29-9/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-122-29-9/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-122/denshovh-hfred-02-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-122/denshovh-hfred-02-a.jpg"},"title":"Fred Hirasuna Interview Segment 9","description":"Reflections
This interview was conducted by filmmaker Frank Abe for his 2000 documentary, Conscience and the Constitution, about the World War II resisters of conscience at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead primarily focusing on issues surrounding the resistance movement itself.","extent":"00:03:43","links_children":"ddr-densho-122-29-9","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":20,"namepart":"Fred Hirasuna"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Frank Abe"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Frank Chin"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Frank Abe Collection","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","creation":"1998","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Fred Hirasuna narrator \nFrank Abe interviewer \nFrank Chin interviewer","download_large":"denshovh-hfred-02-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-csujad-38-106","model":"entity","index":"6 1481/{'value': 2137, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-38-106/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-csujad-38-106/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-csujad-38/ddr-csujad-38-106-mezzanine-e9262ab5c5-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-csujad-38/ddr-csujad-38-106-mezzanine-e9262ab5c5-a.jpg"},"title":"George Nobuo Naohara's handwritten note: good friend, Jiro Sanada","description":"George Nobuo Naohara's handwritten note describing Jiro Sanada. English translation: During his incarcerated at the Tule Lake in California, Jiro Sanada was spending time writing senryu. With Atsushi Art Ishida's help, Jiro was able to leave the camp for Chicago. He was married in Chicago and opened a grocery store with his wife somewhere. His business was successful and came back to Gardena when he retired. He is now 92 years old and such a lucky man living a long life. The backside note reads: Good friend, Jiro Sanada. Title from note. Item from \"George Naohara photo album\" (csudh_nao_0001), page 23. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: nao_01_23_003","extent":"11 x 1 inches","links_children":"ddr-csujad-38-106","creators":[{"role":"author","namepart":"Naohara, George, 1919-2014"}],"topics":[{"term":"World War II -- Leaving camp -- \"Resettlement\"","id":"104"},{"term":"Geographic communities -- Illinois -- Chicago","id":"279"},{"term":"Geographic communities -- California","id":"271"}],"format":"doc","language":["jpn"],"contributor":"CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections","rights":"nocc","genre":"misc_document","location":"Newell, California","facility":[{"term":"Tule Lake","id":"10"}],"creation":"1944-1945","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Naohara, George, 1919-2014 author","download_large":"ddr-csujad-38-106-mezzanine-e9262ab5c5-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-csujad-5-179","model":"entity","index":"7 1482/{'value': 2137, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-5-179/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-csujad-5-179/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-csujad-5/ddr-csujad-5-179-mezzanine-f7e2c61d49-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-csujad-5/ddr-csujad-5-179-mezzanine-f7e2c61d49-a.jpg"},"title":"Letter from Ayame Okine to Mr. S. Okine, December 28, 1945 [in Japanese]","description":"A letter from Ayame Okine to her parents-in-law, Seiichi and Tomeyo Okine. In the letter, Ayame writes about her sister-in-law, Hatsuno Hotty Okine who works at a Caucasian family's place and is getting married to Masuo Robert Befu soon. She also updates on her life in Illinois, working for 12 hours with fifteen to sixteen people and making mochi for the holiday season. The handwritten notes on the backside of the envelope record the arrival date and place of the letter, January 2, 1946 to Hawthorne, and the replied date, January 2[?], 1946. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: oki_02_24_001","extent":"2 pages, handwritten; 1 envelope","links_children":"ddr-csujad-5-179","creators":[{"role":"author","namepart":"Okine, Ayame May"}],"topics":[{"term":"Geographic communities -- Illinois","id":"278"},{"term":"Identity and values -- Family","id":"46"},{"term":"Identity and values -- Nisei","id":"44"}],"format":"doc","language":["jpn"],"contributor":"CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections","rights":"nocc","genre":"correspondence","location":"Bartlett, Illinois","creation":"12/28/1945","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Okine, Ayame May author","download_large":"ddr-csujad-5-179-mezzanine-f7e2c61d49-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-csujad-52-10","model":"entity","index":"8 1483/{'value': 2137, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-52-10/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-csujad-52-10/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-csujad-52/ddr-csujad-52-10-mezzanine-c5136baaba-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-csujad-52/ddr-csujad-52-10-mezzanine-c5136baaba-a.jpg"},"title":"Two girls sitting on beds in the barracks at Manzanar","description":"Two girls sit on beds in the barracks at Manzanar, in front of shelves containing their personal belongings. A caption, printed in the Feb. 25, 1983, edition of the Long Beach Independent reads, \"1942 photo showed Japanese-Americans apparently happily interned at Manzanar camp. The accompanying caption said a picture of Gen. Douglas MacArthur hung in a place of honor and that the girls were writing friends to tell about their new lives.\" Second note attached to the back of the photo reads, \"Censored 1942 Army photo puts a happy spin on life at Manzanar, in the Owens Valley.\" See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: hslb_npc_0014","extent":"black and white, 8 x 10 inches","links_children":"ddr-csujad-52-10","creators":[{"role":"publisher","namepart":"Associated Press"}],"topics":[{"term":"World War II -- Concentration camps -- Living conditions","id":"67"},{"term":"World War II -- Concentration camps -- Living conditions","id":"67"},{"term":"Identity and values -- Children","id":"509"}],"format":"img","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Historical Society of Long Beach, Long Beach, California","rights":"nocc","genre":"photograph","location":"Manzanar, California","facility":[{"term":"Manzanar","id":"7"}],"creation":"3/24/1942","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Associated Press publisher","download_large":"ddr-csujad-52-10-mezzanine-c5136baaba-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-97-118","model":"entity","index":"9 1484/{'value': 2137, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-97-118/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-97-118/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-97/ddr-densho-97-118-mezzanine-4d6fd3ae6c-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-97/ddr-densho-97-118-mezzanine-4d6fd3ae6c-a.jpg"},"title":"Heart Mountain Sentinel Vol. II No. 10 (March 6, 1943)","description":"Selected article titles: \"Robertson Places Responsibility for Enlistments on Block Heads. Lift Ban for Evacuees in Arizona\" (p. 1), \"Recruiting for New Class at Camp Savage Will Begin Soon\" (p. 1), \"Life-Long Stigma Awaits Nisei Who Have Failed to Shoulder Obligations\" (p. 1), \"Non-Citizens May Volunteer for Uncle Sam's Army\" (p. 2), \"Editorial: The Only Course\" (p. 4), \"Can Citizens be Locked Up? Chicago Newspaper Asks\" (p. 5), \"1000 Relocated; 4800 More Await Clearance. Many Jobs are Open to Evacuees\" (p. 6), \"Minidoka Issues Printed Paper\" (p. 6), \"Does Income Tax Baffle You? Attend Lecture!\" (p. 8), \"Former WRA Chief 'Gratified' by Reopening of Army to Nisei\" (p. 8), \"Anti-Delinquency Meeting Sunday to Form League\" (p. 8), \"Young Culprits Put on Probation\" (p. 8), \"Attackers Get Prison Terms\" (p. 8).","extent":"1376W x 2029H (pixels)","links_children":"ddr-densho-97-118","topics":[{"term":"World War II -- Concentration camps -- Publications -- Heart Mountain Sentinel","id":"175"}],"format":"doc","language":["eng","jpn"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"pdm","genre":"periodical","location":"Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming","facility":[{"term":"Heart Mountain","id":"5"}],"creation":"March 6, 1943","status":"completed","search_hidden":"","download_large":"ddr-densho-97-118-mezzanine-4d6fd3ae6c-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-151-6","model":"entity","index":"10 1485/{'value': 2137, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-6/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-151-6/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-151/ddr-densho-151-6-mezzanine-07b073cc02-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-151/ddr-densho-151-6-mezzanine-07b073cc02-a.jpg"},"title":"Assembly center new arrivals","description":"Original WRA caption: Stockton, California. Arrival at Assembly center at 12:45 pm. This assembly center has been open for one week. This group was evacuated from their homes in the Lodi district (grape area) this morning. Their identification numbers and family groups are checked by officials as they get off the bus. They are then directed to the place where their baggage is checked for contraband. After which they are medically examined and then proceed to their assigned place in the barracks. Eight bus loads will arrive at this center today. More than 70,000 citizens and aliens of Japanese ancestry have by this date been removed to assembly centers or in reception centers. These evacuees have need for very little household equipment in this new life, but many are seen bringing in new brooms.","links_children":"ddr-densho-151-6","creators":[{"role":"photographer","namepart":"Lange, Dorothea"}],"topics":[{"term":"World War II -- Temporary Assembly Centers -- Living conditions","id":"62"}],"format":"img","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"pdm","genre":"photograph","location":"Stockton Assembly Center, California","facility":[{"term":"Stockton","id":"16"}],"creation":"19-May-42","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Lange, Dorothea photographer","download_large":"ddr-densho-151-6-mezzanine-07b073cc02-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-1002-3","model":"entity","index":"11 1486/{'value': 2137, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1002-3/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-1002-3/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-1002/denshovh-bernest-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-1002/denshovh-bernest-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Ernest Besig Interview","description":"White male. Born in May 30, 1904, in Albany, New York. Founder and Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California from 1934 to 1971. Fought for civil rights throughout his career, and was involved in the General Strike in San Francisco, the McCarthy Era, and the Free Speech, civil rights, and anti-war movements. Represented Fred Korematsu in 1942 in his case against the United States government.
(This interview was conducted by sisters Emiko and Chizuko Omori for their 1999 documentary, Rabbit in the Moon, about the Japanese American resisters of conscience in the World War II incarceration camps. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead primarily focusing on issues surrounding the resistance movement itself.)","extent":"01:07:17","links_children":"ddr-densho-1002-3","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":138,"namepart":"Ernest Besig"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Chizu Omori"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Emiko Omori"},{"role":"videographer","namepart":"Emiko Omori and Witt Mons"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Emiko and Chizuko Omori Collection","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"San Francisco, California","creation":"October 1, 1992","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Ernest Besig narrator \nChizu Omori interviewer \nEmiko Omori interviewer \nEmiko Omori and Witt Mons videographer","download_large":"denshovh-bernest-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-csujad-55-2621","model":"entity","index":"12 1487/{'value': 2137, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-2621/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-csujad-55-2621/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-csujad-55/ddr-csujad-55-2621-mezzanine-7640d130d1-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-csujad-55/ddr-csujad-55-2621-mezzanine-7640d130d1-a.jpg"},"title":"Mr. Wakichi Kawamoto and children","description":"W. Kawamoto general merchandise store. erso reads: Mr. Wakichi Kawamoto and children, L to R Chiyeko, Matsuko, Wakichi, Takeo. Life history of this store in Florin, CA. This photo of general merchandise store which was opened and operated by Mr. Wakichi Kawamoto in Florin, California some time in early 1900. This establishment was later sold to Mr. Wada after Mr. Kawamoto passed away in June 1910. Few years later, this store was taken over by Tamazo Tanikawa along with adjacent building belonging to H. Kato. During his ownership, this store was destroyed by fire. Mr. Tanikawa rebuilt and operated until the evacuation in 1942. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2785","extent":"10.5 x 13.5 inches; black and white","links_children":"ddr-csujad-55-2621","topics":[{"term":"Geographic communities -- California","id":"271"},{"term":"Industry and employment -- Small business -- Grocery stores","id":"371"}],"format":"img","language":["eng"],"contributor":"California State University, Sacramento, Department of Special Collections and University Archives","rights":"nocc","genre":"photograph","location":"Florin, California","status":"completed","search_hidden":"","download_large":"ddr-csujad-55-2621-mezzanine-7640d130d1-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-119-40","model":"entity","index":"13 1488/{'value': 2137, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-119-40/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-119-40/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-119/ddr-densho-119-40-mezzanine-ebb8674c18-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-119/ddr-densho-119-40-mezzanine-ebb8674c18-a.jpg"},"title":"Minidoka Irrigator Vol. III No. 13 (May 22, 1943)","description":"Selected article titles: \"Nation's Press Misleading On Center's Closing Time\" (p. 1), \"Ousted Nisei Report Back To Work For Candy Firm\" (p. 1), \"WRA Centers Termed Undesirable; Myer Foresees 'Eventual Closing'\" (p. 1), \"Myer Stresses Necessity of Active Participation in Agricultural Program\" (p. 1), \"Highest Court Upholds Right of U.S. Born\" (p. 1), \"Holland Teams Absorption of Nisei Into U.S. Life 'Test of Americanism'\" (p. 2), \"Church Deplores Ousting Incident\" (p. 2), \"WRA Aims to Spread Nisei Thinly in U.S. Communities. Problems Lessened By Avoiding 'Little Tokyo' Settlements\" (p. 2), \"Movement Started to Block Japanese Return to Pac. Coast. Western Cities' Support Sought By Calif. League\" (p. 3), \"Committee to Help Public View Japanese Problem 'Objectively'\" (p. 4), \"Passes Not Issued Unless Forms for Property are Filled\" (p. 6).","extent":"1524W x 2008H (pixels)","links_children":"ddr-densho-119-40","topics":[{"term":"World War II -- Concentration camps -- Publications -- Minidoka Irrigator","id":"173"}],"format":"doc","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Densho","rights":"pdm","genre":"periodical","location":"Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho","facility":[{"term":"Minidoka","id":"8"}],"creation":"May 22, 1943","status":"completed","search_hidden":"","download_large":"ddr-densho-119-40-mezzanine-ebb8674c18-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-122-25","model":"entity","index":"14 1489/{'value': 2137, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-122-25/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-122-25/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-122/denshovh-droger-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-122/denshovh-droger-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Roger Daniels Interview","description":"White male. Born December 1, 1927, in New York City, New York. Charles Phelps Taft Professor Emeritus of History, University of Cincinnati. Served as a consultant to the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians from 1981 to 1983. Has researched and written numerous books about the Japanese American experience, including Prisoners Without Trial: Japanese Americans in World War II and American Concentration Camps: A Documentary History of the Relocation and Incarceration of Japanese Americans, 1941-1945.
(This interview was conducted by filmmaker Frank Abe for his 2000 documentary, Conscience and the Constitution, about the World War II resisters of conscience at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead primarily focusing on issues surrounding the resistance movement itself.)","extent":"00:37:11","links_children":"ddr-densho-122-25","creators":[{"role":"narrator","oh_id":166,"namepart":"Roger Daniels"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Frank Abe"},{"role":"interviewer","namepart":"Frank Chin"}],"format":"vh","language":["eng"],"contributor":"Frank Abe Collection","rights":"cc","genre":"interview","location":"Heart Mountain, Wyoming","creation":"May 20, 1995","status":"completed","search_hidden":"Roger Daniels narrator \nFrank Abe interviewer \nFrank Chin interviewer","download_large":"denshovh-droger-01-a.jpg"},{"id":"ddr-densho-122-8","model":"entity","index":"15 1490/{'value': 2137, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-122-8/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/ddr-densho-122-8/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/ddr-densho-122/denshovh-kyosh-01-a.jpg","thumb":"http://ddrmedia.local/media/ddr-densho-122/denshovh-kyosh-01-a.jpg"},"title":"Yosh Kuromiya Interview","description":"Nisei male. Born April 1923 in Sierra Madre, California. Was pursuing a degree in art at Pasadena Junior College at the time of mass removal. While incarcerated at Heart Mountain, Wyoming, continued his artistic pursuits, drawing sketches and designing posters, etc. for various camp projects. Resisted the draft at age 21, and was indicted in 1944 for draft evasion. After serving time in prison, worked as a gardener before becoming a landscape architect in the late 1950s.
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