Granada (Amache)

Concentration Camp

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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 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 Child standing between barracks (ddr-densho-37-777)

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 Construction of barracks (ddr-densho-37-524)

Original WRA caption: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Contractor's workmen roofing the assembled barracks unit.

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img Leaving camp (ddr-densho-37-506)

Original WRA caption: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Last of the residents of the Amache Relocation Center board the train at Granada for the journey to the west coast or to new homes elsewhere in the country. A total of nearly 15,000 evacuees were inducted into the Granada Project, Amache, Colorado, since August 27, 1942 ...

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img Silk screen shop (ddr-densho-159-106)

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img New Year's celebration (ddr-densho-159-165)

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img Camp inmates harvesting onions (ddr-densho-159-91)

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img Party for silk screen shop workers (ddr-densho-159-223)

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img Granada (Amache) concentration camp, Colorado (ddr-densho-159-213)

This photograph was taken from the camp's water tower.

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img Concentration camp in winter (ddr-densho-159-52)

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img Silk screen shop (ddr-densho-159-111)

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img Girls basketball game (ddr-densho-159-259)

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img Memorial service (ddr-densho-159-142)

Memorial service for Amache servicemen killed in action.

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img Memorial service (ddr-densho-159-145)

This memorial service took place in the Amache High School gymnasium.

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img Two Nisei in the snow (ddr-densho-159-53)

The Nisei in the center is Namiye Kinoshita, 7F.

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img Silk screen shop (ddr-densho-159-99)

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img Japanese American playing the clarinet (ddr-densho-159-69)

Jane Nakamura Ono on clarinet, Charles Hinman, conductor.

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img War Relocation Authority personnel (ddr-densho-159-56)

Front row, fifth from the left is Rosalind "Posy" Walls. She served as a teacher at Amache High School 1944-45, teaching English and serving as adviser to the high school yearbook.

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