Holidays and festivals

Striving to maintain normal lives, Japanese Americans held holiday celebrations and festivals inside the concentration camps. Whether decorating mess halls during the Christmas holiday as part of a camp-wide competition or participating in parades to celebrate the harvest of crops from their own gardens, the Japanese Americans demonstrated their resourcefulness and resilience.

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img New Year's dance (ddr-densho-37-128)

This New Year's dance was held at the camp's hospital.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-128/

img Harvest Festival Parade (ddr-densho-37-70)

Original WRA caption: Two of the evacuees who participated in the Harvest Festival Parade which was held at this relocation center.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-70/

img Harvest Festival Parade (ddr-densho-37-399)

Original WRA caption: Gila River Relocation Center, Rivers, Arizona. A view of some of the school children who participated in the Harvest Festival Parade held at the Gila River center on Thanksgiving Day.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-399/

img Labor Day parade (ddr-densho-37-375)

Original WRA caption: Tule Lake Relocation Center, Newell, California. A parade was held by evacuees to celebrate labor day. Great originality in costuming was shown.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-375/

img Dedication ceremony (ddr-densho-37-564)

Original WRA caption: Topaz, Utah. With a fervent prayer, this Japanese Topaz resident, a Christian Minister, opens the dedication ceremonies at the Relocation Center at Topaz.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-564/

img High school graduation (ddr-densho-37-33)

Original WRA caption: Students of the Hunt High School dress in caps and gowns for Commencement exercises.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-33/

doc Page of Hisa Nimura Horiuchi Scrapbook (ddr-densho-325-27)

Timeline of highlights from 1942 and 1943 from Tule Lake concentration camp as well as several New Years columns.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-27/

img Page of Hisa Nimura Horiuchi Scrapbook (ddr-densho-325-49)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-49/

doc Amache Carnival Souvenir (ddr-densho-356-1042)

A silk screen printed image on a tag. The image is of an cartoon Native American head with the words "Carnival So--nir 1943 Compliments of Silk Screen" surrounding it.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-1042/

doc Christmas Card to Yuri Domoto (ddr-densho-356-371)

Christmas card to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-321 and ddr-densho-356-413.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-371/

doc Letter to Yuri Domoto from Min Yonekura (ddr-densho-356-373)

Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Minoru Yonekura in which Min writes his hope for the new year, how he celebrated Christmas, and possible plans to move to Seattle. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-321 and ddr-densho-356-413.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-373/

doc Christmas Card to Yuri Domoto and Wakako Domoto from Emi (ddr-densho-356-309)

Christmas card to Yuri Domoto and Wakako Domoto from Emi. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-277 and ddr-densho-356-320.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-309/

doc Letter to Yuri Tsukada from Wakako Domoto (ddr-densho-356-275)

Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from her sister Wakako Domoto in which she details issues finding housing in Berkeley due to racism, the politics at her office surrounding the quitting of a supervisor and the hiring of a replacement, and some local gossip from their hometown.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-275/

doc Christmas Card to Yuri Domoto from Min (ddr-densho-356-302)

Christmas card to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Minoru Yonekura. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-277 and ddr-densho-356-320.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-302/

doc Christmas Card to Yuri Domoto from Yuki Kamayatsu (ddr-densho-356-304)

Christmas card to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Yuki Kamayatsu. Inside the card is a message to Yuri about life in Denver and a plan to see each other soon. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-277 and ddr-densho-356-320.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-304/

doc Christmas Card to Yuri Domoto from Enoch and Margaret Dumas (ddr-densho-356-305)

Christmas card to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Margaret Dumas with a message on the back answering some question left from Yuriko's stay at the Dumas's. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-277 and ddr-densho-356-320.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-305/

doc Christmas Card to Yuri Domoto from Ilona Imamura (ddr-densho-356-307)

Christmas card to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Ilona Imamura. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-277 and ddr-densho-356-320.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-307/

doc Letter to Yuri Domoto from Yoshito Shibata (ddr-densho-356-233)

Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Yoshito Shibata that includes a menu from Camp Savage's Christmas dinner. In the letter Yoshito writes about his happiness that the Christmas celebrations Yuri described in her last letter were joyful. He also writes about the gifts he mailed her, the gifts soldiers at Camp Savage received, wanting to carbon …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-233/

doc Invitation (ddr-densho-356-308)

Invitation to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada to attend a Christmas Candlelight Ceremonial. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-277 and ddr-densho-356-320.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-308/

doc Christmas Card to Yuri Domoto from Lorenne Pitts (ddr-densho-356-369)

Christmas card with a handwritten note to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Lorenne Pitts in which Lorenne provide information about mutual friends. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-321 and ddr-densho-356-413.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-369/

doc Christmas Card to Yuri Domoto from Mr. & Mrs. James Ota (ddr-densho-356-306)

Christmas card to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Mr. & Mrs. James T. Ota. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-277 and ddr-densho-356-320.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-306/

doc Letter to Yuri Domoto from Yoshito Shibata (ddr-densho-356-230)

Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Yoshito Shibata in which he discusses his report on his recruitment trip to WRA camps, his recent trip to Minneapolis, his thoughts on Christmas in the army vs. in camp, and censorship of the mail. While in Minneapolis visited a florist that use to do business with the Domoto Bros …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-230/

doc Letter to Yuri Domoto from Yoshito Shibata (ddr-densho-356-232)

Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Yoshito Shibata in which he acknowledges receiving two letters from Yuri, what the Christmas celebration was like at Camp Savage, the response to his report on the recruitment trip to WRA camps, meeting Chris Ishii, the change in daily routine at Camp Savage to include more physical training, inquires into …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-232/

doc Easter Service Program (ddr-densho-356-815)

Program for Easter Service at the Granada Christian Church on April 25, 1943.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-815/

doc Draft of letter to Yoshito Shibata from Yuri Domoto (ddr-densho-356-250)

Draft of a letter to Yoshito Shibata from Yuri Domoto Tsukada in which she talks about the dusty weather at Amache, the pain of evacuation, her family's joy at hearing from him, and notification of the birth of a nephew.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-250/