Minidoka

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doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-103)

Excerpt: "During these days of crisis Japanese American Citizens are put into a Concentration Camp as some call it..."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-103/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-104)

Excerpt: "A painful memory lingers in the heart of many Niseis -- a memory of those dark somber days of 1941, after the unexpected attack on Pearl Harbor."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-104/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-164)

Excerpt: "War to me is just misery and, an entire change of life for almost everybody."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-164/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-127)

Excerpt: "War, as everyone else says, is 'HELL.'" I wouldn't know what it is, for I have never experienced the horrors of it."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-127/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-68)

Excerpt: "It has been a beautiful sunny weekend. In spite of looking like spring, it's cold." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-68/

doc Student essay: "The Nisei Problem" (ddr-densho-171-152)

Excerpt: "After being put into camp, the Niseis are becomong soft and lazy."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-152/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-53)

Excerpt: "Monday before last I was invited to Father Joe's for a farewell dinner for Miss Hiota. It was all Japanese food with chopsticks." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-53/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-70)

Excerpt: "Tonight I am quite well caught up, with my grades all ready and the senior grade point averages under way." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-70/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-79)

Excerpt: "There is really very little news this week. The first part was very hot and yesterday and today have been unseasonably cool." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-79/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-15)

Excerpt: "First -- did you ever receive the bond I sent by registered letter early in December?" Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-15/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-161)

Excerpt: "Though war is very distruct, we it is necessary."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-161/

doc Student essay: "Our Farm" (ddr-densho-171-165)

Excerpt: "I sometimes wondered how our farm could be irrigated, and how people could pull all the sagebrush which occupied our now called farm."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-165/

doc Student essay: "We Must Win!" (ddr-densho-171-138)

Excerpt: "It was a bright, sunny morning and I turned toward the hill and graduatlly sought my way to the top."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-138/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-145)

Excerpt: "As the first streak of dawn tinted the horizon, the unwelcomed sound of an alarm was heard."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-145/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-150)

Excerpt: "We have all experienced something that we have never thought of experiencing before."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-150/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-153)

Excerpt:" As I was sitting at home last night thinking for a inspiration, I noticed next door a little boy, about the age of four climbing up and rolling down the sofa valiantly trying to irritate his mother since she could not receive his attention."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-153/

doc Student essay: "What War Means to Me" (ddr-densho-171-123)

Excerpt: "War means to me a futile destruction to mankind."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-123/

doc Student essay: "Foolishness of War" (ddr-densho-171-102)

Excerpt: "I always thought, and I always will think, that war is a foolish, unnecessary thing."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-102/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-44)

Excerpt: "We started our testing program Monday -- a little sooner than I would have liked, but the pressure was on so I 'broke my neck' over it." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-44/

doc Student essay: "Strike --- Strike --- Strike --- reading" (ddr-densho-171-141)

Excerpt: "the latest edition of your newspaper in Headlines or sub topics -- Radio -- news, like these"

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-141/

doc Student essay: "War" (ddr-densho-171-98)

Excerpt: "War is hatred between nations and nationality, which can be prevented through Christian ideals and humility."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-98/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-158)

Excerpt: "As the silhouette of summer slowly desends upon Minidoka, the fragrant smell of garlic blooms and the sewage plant drifts about with the playful breezes."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-158/