Granada (Amache)

img Construction of barracks (ddr-densho-37-522)

Original WRA caption: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Typical scene of barracks construction with the prefabricated section

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img Exterior view of Amache (Granada) (ddr-densho-37-389)

Original WRA caption: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Weeds are already taking over where recently thousands of evacuees moved about between their temporary homes and the mess halls, schools and churches of various denominations. A total of nearly 15,000 evacuees were induced into the Granada Project, Amache, Colorado, since August 27, 1942, when the first group …

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img Japanese Americans leaving camp (ddr-densho-37-770)

Original WRA caption: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Center residents arrive by truck from Amache to board the trains for California or other sections of the country in which they have decided to relocate. A total of nearly 15,000 evacuees were inducted into the Granada Project, Amache, Colorado, since August 27, 1942, when the first group …

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img Girl weeding in school victory garden (ddr-densho-37-520)

Original WRA caption: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Fourth grade girl--Diane Wallace--weeding the school victory garden.

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img Camp administration buildings (ddr-densho-37-778)

Original WRA caption: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. A review of the administrative area after a December snow storm. At the left is the post office and the two buildings at the right are administrative office buildings.

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<i>Bon Odori</i> festival (ddr-densho-37-775)

img Bon Odori festival (ddr-densho-37-775)

Original WRA caption: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Part of the approximately 1,000 dancers who participated in the Bon Odori festival sponsored by the Granada Buddhist Church on August 14. Spectators are shown in the background. This dance was held at night on the baseball diamond.

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img Child waiting for mess hall meal (ddr-densho-37-518)

Original WRA caption: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. It is a long time between meals at the mess hall for a hungry man, so the cracker box at the Kobayashi barracks gets a frequent raiding.

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img Summer Carnival Parade (ddr-densho-37-469)

Original WRA caption: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Amache Summer Carnival Parade.

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img Construction of barracks (ddr-densho-37-521)

Original WRA caption: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Typical scene of the construction of the barracks. Here workmen are laying concrete foundations for a barracks unit.

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img Aerial view of Amache concentration camp, Colorado (ddr-densho-37-772)

Original WRA caption: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. On a Sunday afternoon at the Amache Center, the day is calm and the warm December sun invites center residents from their barracks homes.

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img Softball game (ddr-densho-37-523)

Original WRA caption: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Saturday afternoon finds a group of boys in the center playing the ever popular game of soft ball.

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img Bon Odori (ddr-densho-37-517)

Original WRA caption: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Although music for the Bon Odori held August 14, was furnished by phonograph records and a loud speaker, it was supplemented by the two drummers shown. They are, left to right, Koshiro Kumagai and Jutaro Gondo. The Bon Odori was sponsored by the Granada Buddhist Church.

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img Families leaving camp (ddr-densho-37-771)

Original WRA caption: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Shown here is a young miss, dressed in her Sunday best, waiting with the family possessions while her mother makes final arrangements for boarding the train. Scenes at the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad depot, Granada, Colorado, as 170 evacuees from the Amache Center entrain for their …

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img Soldiers and families (ddr-densho-37-526)

Original WRA caption: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Blue Star Mothers and wives and visiting soldiers.

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img Barracks construction (ddr-densho-37-776)

Original WRA caption: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Pre-fabricated wall sections are raised at the place by contractor's workmen in constructing barracks at this relocation center.

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img Gravesite (ddr-densho-37-513)

Original WRA caption: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Not all the center residents will return to their former homes. Many have found permanent "relocation" in the sandy soil on which the tar paper barracks were hurriedly erected. A total of nearly 15,000 evacuees were inducted into the Granada Project, Amache, Colorado, since August 27, 1942, when …

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img High school class (ddr-densho-37-511)

Original WRA caption: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Leo W. Kraus instructing high school class in properties of wood.

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img Schoolchildren landscaping in front of school building (ddr-densho-37-515)

Original WRA caption: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. View showing Elementary children landscaping the grounds in front of their barracks school.

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img View between barracks (ddr-densho-37-782)

Original WRA caption: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Evacuee barracks showing gardens and trees.

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img Arial view of Granada (ddr-densho-373-1)

Arial view of Granada (Amache).

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av Fujiko "Fuzzy" Ishikawa Interview (ddr-densho-400-8)

Fujiko Ishikawa was born on November 18, 1912, in Oxnard, California. She grew up in Lomita, California, and attended UCLA where she met her husband Henry who became a partner in a successful produce business. She was imprisoned at Santa Anita Race Track and the concentration camp in Amache, Colorado. She moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, during …

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av Alice Ono Interview (ddr-densho-400-19)

Alice Ono was born on January 1, 1912, in Los Angeles, California. She was one of five children of Yujiro and Yone Fukuyama. Her father was a produce broker and her mother was a housewife. During World War II, she and her family were sent to the Amache concentration camp, Colorado. After the war she and …

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av Frank Endo Interview (ddr-densho-400-1)

Frank Endo was born in Wilmington, California, on April 20,1923, and grew up on Terminal Island, California. He taught gymnastics at Santa Anita, California, Race Track and at the concentration camp in Amache, Colorado, where he was imprisoned. Endo worked in Chicago during WWII and served in the U.S. Army's Military Intelligence Service. He participated in …

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