Minidoka

Concentration Camp

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Minidoka Relocation Center Map (ddr-densho-462-1)
doc Minidoka Relocation Center Map (ddr-densho-462-1)
Map of Minidoka reprinted for Minidoka Remembered, original created by Anky Arai in 1943
Minidoka Gals (ddr-densho-463-7)
img Minidoka Gals (ddr-densho-463-7)
Written beside photograph on scrapbook page: Don't know who they all are but sure would like to know. Minidoka gals, March 1944.
Kindergarten class (ddr-densho-64-4)
img Kindergarten class (ddr-densho-64-4)
Mako Nakagawa is in the second row, third from left.
Student essay:
doc Student essay: "Rain" (ddr-densho-171-147)
Excerpt: "The black hovering clouds indicated rain -- heavy rain. The day appeared like night, darker and darker it got."
Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-37)
doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-37)
Excerpt: "The first and most important reason for writing is to tip you off that if you receive a call from Father Daisuke Kitagawa, I have sent him." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.
Student essay:
doc Student essay: "War" (ddr-densho-171-170)
Excerpt: "'December 7th, 1941, Japs attack Pearl Harbor' 'Surprise Attack in Pearl Harbor!' War! War!"
Student essay:
doc Student essay: "Hauling Rocks" (ddr-densho-171-169)
Excerpt: "When I woke up in the morning and went to work I found out that we had to haul rocks to Block 3."
Student essay (ddr-densho-171-179)
doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-179)
Excerpt: "One day when I came home from the movie with my sister our parents seemed worried as though something terrible had happened."
Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-39)
doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-39)
Excerpt: "I'm taking the day off more as a precaution than anything else..." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.
Student essay:
doc Student essay: "What happened when Pearl Harbor was attacked" (ddr-densho-171-136)
Excerpt: "Blood! More blood! Was the frantic cry of the doctors when our horribly burned and mangled boys began to stream in the operating tables."
Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-82)
doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-82)
Excerpt: "Just a scribble to tell you I am OK but simply swamped with the closing of the center." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.
Student essay:
doc Student essay: "War" (ddr-densho-171-177)
Excerpt: "War is a contest by force bteween two or more nations or states, carried on for any purpose -- a contest which is full of hatred had has an urge to kill the ones of the opposite side."
Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-58)
doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-58)
Excerpt: "Here I am starting my third year on the project today!" Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.
Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-14)
doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-14)
Excerpt: "I feel terribly that I didn't get any special greeting to you for Christmas, but there just wasn't time to write and Uncle Sam was discouraging telegrams and long distance phone calls." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.
Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-56)
doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-56)
Excerpt: "We got off at 11 Friday morning, rode to Burley with Mr. Heley on an errand and took the last seats in the bus from there." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.
Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-41)
doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-41)
Excerpt: "This is intended as a timely greeting in lieu of a phone call or telegram. I hope it will find you having a pleasant, cozy Christmas 'on the home front'!" Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.
Student essay (ddr-densho-171-105)
doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-105)
Excerpt: "Guns are roaring, bullets whizzing, men dying like rats, so that this world would be a decent place to live."
Student essay:
doc Student essay: "Killed in Action" (ddr-densho-171-114)
Excerpt: "People only knew him as a dissipated boy whom no one would associate with, except his few degenerate friends."
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