Santa Anita

doc Information Bulletin No. 1 (ddr-densho-320-1)

Contains information about living quarters, meals, and other services in the camps.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-320-1/

doc Granada Relocation Center information booklet (ddr-densho-390-121)

An information booklet for the Granada concentration center. Topics include: descriptions of the area, community government, community enterprises, social activities, housing, and more.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-390-121/

doc Reveille Volume 1, Number 1 (ddr-densho-390-133)

The inaugural issue of Reveille includes articles about the Scout Christmas party, athletic and outdoor events, scout number changes, Lil' Neebo illustrator Chris Ishii, a call to join the scouts, a short story, and more. One article mentions 14 boy scouts saved a flag from a mob during the Manzanar riot.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-390-133/

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 …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-400-8/

av Tetsuo "Ted" Hasegawa Interview (ddr-densho-400-4)

Ted Hasegawa was born on January 16, 1921, in Sacramento, California, and educated in Japan. When he returned to Torrance, California, where his parents farmed, he started kindergarten at the age of 11. After high school, he took automotive classes at a trade school in Los Angeles. Hasegawa witnessed the mass eviction of Japanese residents from …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-400-4/

av Ken Inose Interview (ddr-densho-400-5)

Ken Inose was born in 1933 in Los Angeles, California, as one of four children to Sejiro and Yoshiko Inose. Before World War II, Ken lived in the Boyle Heights area of Los Angeles where he had ethnically diverse neighbors. His father was a salesman and his mother was a housewife. When the war broke out, …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-400-5/

av Hideo "Jibo" Satow Interview (ddr-densho-400-20)

Hideo "Jibo" Satow was born on July 23, 1914, in Inglewood, California. He was the oldest of ten children. His father, Tomijiro Satow was a flower grower in Hawthorne, California. The Satow family was imprisoned at the Santa Anita Race Track and the concentration camp at Rohwer, Arkansas, during World War II. After the war, Satow …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-400-20/

av Midori Kamei Interview (ddr-densho-400-11)

Midori Kamei was born on July 21, 1923, in Redondo Beach, California. She grew up in North Torrance where her parents farmed. Kamei was imprisoned briefly with her family at the Santa Anita Race Track in California and at the concentration camp at Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Kamei left Heart Mountain to attend college in Colorado. She …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-400-11/

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 …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-400-1/

av George Joji Tenpo Interview (ddr-densho-400-22)

George Tenpo was born on May 28, 1923, in Compton, California. His parents were Hyoichi and Shizue Tenpo. His father was a farmer in Harbor City and his mother was a housewife. During World War II, George and his family were sent to the Santa Anita Assembly Center and the Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas. After the …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-400-22/

Comments by the War Relocation Authority on statements in the press allegedly made by witnesses before the Committee on Un-American Activities (ddr-densho-381-14)

doc Comments by the War Relocation Authority on statements in the press allegedly made by witnesses before the Committee on Un-American Activities (ddr-densho-381-14)

Additional comments from the War Relocation Authority in response to statements allegedly made by to the House Committee on Un-American Activities to the press between June 8 and June 17. Topics addressed include: questioned loyalty, conspiracies to sabotage local dams, and food quality.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-381-14/

doc Postcard from Chimata Sumida to Grace Sumida (ddr-densho-379-217)

Postcard to tell family that he had been paroled and even though he requested repatriation, the second repatriation ship was postponed indefinitely so he thought he would be able to live with the family for some time.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-379-217/

doc Postcard from Hiroshi Suzuki to Masako Sumida (ddr-densho-379-212)

Postcard from Hiroshi Suzuki to Masako Sumida from Camp Livingston, LA letting her know that he was awaiting repatriation but he didn't know where or when

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-379-212/

img Frank Aiji Endo Family at Santa Anita Assembly Center (ddr-densho-379-659)

The caption on the page of the photograph album is "Santa Anita Sept 1942". Frank Aiji Endo, Alice Yuriko Endo, and Todd Endo at Santa Anita Assembly Center.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-379-659/

doc Postcard from Shunishi Murata to Masako Sumida (ddr-densho-379-218)

Postcard from Shunichi Murata to Masako Sumida stating that he is still in Ft. Missoula because the second repatriation ship is delayed.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-379-218/

doc "This Isn't Japan" (ddr-densho-423-151)

Article written by Mary Oyama describing the Santa Anita Assembly Center and emphasizing that the Japanese incarcerated there are Americans. Reprinted from Common Ground

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-423-151/

doc Santa Anita pacemaker, vol. 1, no. 27 (July 18, 1942) (ddr-csujad-55-1259)

Biweekly newspaper published at the Santa Anita Assembly Center from April through October 1942. Current issue includes information on recreational activities, religious services, sports, a new mess system, jobs, bank hours, hygiene clinic, diphtheria shots, an editorial on "defeatism," and the feature "Win, Place, and Show." See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-1259/

doc Santa Anita pacemaker, vol. 1, no. 31 (August 1, 1942) (ddr-csujad-55-1263)

Biweekly newspaper published at the Santa Anita Assembly Center from April through October 1942. Current issue includes information on recreational activities, religious services, sports, coupons, regulations, model airplane contest, clothing allowances, an editorial on race-baiting, and the features "Win, Place, and Show" and "Story of the Week." See this object in the California State Universities Japanese …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-1263/

doc Santa Anita pacemaker, vol. 1, no. 19 (June 19, 1942) (ddr-csujad-55-1251)

Biweekly newspaper published at the Santa Anita Assembly Center from April through October 1942. Current issue includes information on recreational activities, religious services, sports, grievances of camouflage net workers, paychecks, Father's Day events, parent-teacher association, "visitor house," an editorial on New York nisei, and the feature "Win, Place, and Show." See this object in the California …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-1251/

doc Santa Anita pacemaker, vol. 1, no. 38 (July 29, 1942) (ddr-csujad-55-1270)

Biweekly newspaper published at the Santa Anita Assembly Center from April through October 1942. Current issue includes information on recreational activities, religious services, sports, departure for incarceration camps, social events, nisei soldiers, an editorial on the right to vote, and the features ""Win, Place, and Show"", ""Post Time"", ""Story of the Week"", and ""Feminine Forum."" See …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-1270/

doc Santa Anita pacemaker, vol. 1, no. 39 (September 2, 1942) (ddr-csujad-55-1271)

Biweekly newspaper published at the Santa Anita Assembly Center from April through October 1942. Current issue includes information on recreational activities, religious services, sports, departure for incarceration camps, funerals, Heart Mountain housing, transfer regulations, an editorial on letters in the Arkansas Gazette, and the features ""Win, Place, and Show"", ""Post Time"", and ""Feminine Forum."" See this …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-1271/

doc Santa Anita pacemaker, vol. 1, no. 22 (July 1, 1942) (ddr-csujad-55-1254)

Biweekly newspaper published at the Santa Anita Assembly Center from April through October 1942. Current issue includes information on recreational activities, religious services, sports, selective service, a talent show, birth of twins, additional facilities, boy scouts, religious services, sports, recreational activities, schedule of events, an editorial on graduation, and the features "Feminine Forum" and "Win, Place, …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-1254/

doc Santa Anita pacemaker, vol. 1, no. 13 (June 2, 1942) (ddr-csujad-55-1245)

Biweekly newspaper published at the Santa Anita Assembly Center from April through October 1942. Current issue includes information on recreational activities, religious services, sports, center population, jobs, a wedding, farmers, camp statistics, and the feature "Win, Place, and Show." See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1247

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-1245/

doc Santa Anita pacemaker, vol. 1, no. 35 (August 19, 1942) (ddr-csujad-55-1267)

Biweekly newspaper published at the Santa Anita Assembly Center from April through October 1942. Current issue includes information on recreational activities, religious services, sports, clothing catalog, hospital, an editorial on California, and the features "Feminine Forum" and "Win, Place, and Show." See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1269

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-1267/

doc Santa Anita pacemaker, vol. 1, no. 34 (August 15, 1942) (ddr-csujad-55-1266)

Biweekly newspaper published at the Santa Anita Assembly Center from April through October 1942. Current issue includes information on recreational activities, religious services, sports, Gene W. Wilbur, a barber shop, nurses, paychecks, Yeiki Matsui, and the features "Win, Place, and Show", "Post Time", "Story of the Week", and "Feminine Forum." See this object in the California …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-1266/

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