Granada (Amache)

Concentration Camp

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av Alice Ono Interview (ddr-densho-400-19)

Alice Ono was born on January 1, 1912, in Los Angeles, California. She was one of five children of Yujiro and Yone Fukuyama. Her father was a produce broker and her mother was a housewife. During World War II, she and her family were sent to the Amache concentration camp, Colorado. After the war she and …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-400-19/

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/

doc War Relocation Authority memorandum about community and project analysis reports (ddr-densho-381-16)

A memorandum to War Relocation Authority staff members offering reports about community analysis and project analysis, available by request.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-381-16/

doc Schools at the Granada Relocation Center (ddr-densho-381-42)

A paper debating if schools should be built at the Granada concentration camp.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-381-42/

doc Report and minority views of the Special Committee on Un-American Activities on Japanese War Relocation Centers (ddr-densho-381-55)

A report submitted by John M. Costello to the House of Representatives discussing concerns with the War Relocation Authority's management of the concentration camps.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-381-55/

doc War Relocation Authority contact list (ddr-densho-381-43)

A contact list of War Relocation Authority directors.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-381-43/

doc War Relocation Authority administrative notice on payroll allotments for war bonds (ddr-densho-381-19)

Acting Director, Leland Barrows, encourages War Relocation Authority staff to meet payroll allotment goals for war bonds. Included in the notice are copies of letters from H. Morgenthau Jr., Secretary of the Treasury, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and a list of participation numbers.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-381-19/

doc Project directors report on evacuee resistances to relocation (ddr-densho-381-6)

Dillon S. Myer, War Relocation Authority Director, lists twelve reasons why he believes detainees are reluctant to leave the camps.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-381-6/

img Yasuyo "Frances" Ikeda sitting on bed inside barracks (ddr-ajah-6-439)

Caption below photo: Yasuyo "Frances" Ikeda, of Alameda, CA., in her barracks at 6G-7C at Amache incarceration camp. The back of the chair has her father's name, Yoyoji listed. Note the May 1945 calendar, Roi Tan cigars box and other household items. By July she and her brother, MItsuru, would leave Amache for Sacramento, CA and …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-439/

doc Review of Granada Community Activities (ddr-densho-379-336)

Report includes detailed reports of activities and requirements for each Community Activities category

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-379-336/

img Emmy Sumida Ito in front of her barrack door at Amache Relocation Center (ddr-densho-379-683)

Written below the photograph "Hi family! Love Emmy 1-10-'43" Emmy Sumida Ito was incarcerated with her husband, Ken Ito, at Amache while the rest of her family was incarcerated at Rohwer.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-379-683/

img Yasuyo Ikeda at Amache (ddr-ajah-6-441)

Caption below photo: Yasuyo "Frances" Ikeda of Alameda, CA, at Amache, Co. Printed on photo: May 1945

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-441/

img Three young women sitting outside barracks (ddr-ajah-6-443)

Caption below photo: Misao Muratani, Frances Yasuyo Ikeda of Alameda, CA, Annabel Tsujimoto. Amache incarceration camp

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-443/

img Man standing outside barracks (ddr-ajah-6-433)

Caption below photo: Frank Masutani, Amache, Colorado 1944-1945

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-433/

doc Photo and biographical information about Yasuyo "Frances" Ikeda (ddr-ajah-6-444)

Document with photo, biographical information and diagram of Amache camp

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-444/

img Woman standing outside barracks (ddr-ajah-6-445)

Caption below photo: Mrs. Kozono at Amache incarceration camp, likely May 1945

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-445/

img Yasuyo "Frances" Ikeda (ddr-ajah-6-438)

Caption below photo: Yasuyo "Frances" Ikeda of Alameda, CA. Amache, Colorado, May 1945

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-438/

doc Letter from K. Umekuba to Tomoyuki Nozawa (ddr-densho-423-435)

Letter in Japanese

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-423-435/

doc Letter from K. Umekuba to Tomoyuki Nozawa (ddr-densho-423-431)

Letter in Japanese

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doc Letter from K. Umekuba to Tomoyuki Nozawa (ddr-densho-423-434)

Letter in Japanese

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-423-434/

doc Letter from K. Umekuba to Tomoyuki Nozawa (ddr-densho-423-433)

Letter in Japanese

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-423-433/

doc Resettlement handbook (ddr-densho-493-34)

"Resettlement Handbook" with front cover illustration of a person considering locations on a large globe. Published by the Evacuee Information Office of the Granada Project. Resource and instruction book for leaving camp. Instructions for how to make transportation arrangements and apply for transportation funding, close out clothing allowance, employment and last paychecks, return of government property, …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-493-34/