Granada (Amache)

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Lansing State Journal:
doc Lansing State Journal: "Ishikawa gives lots of credit to wife" (ddr-densho-468-260)
Part 2 of profile on Ishikawa from March 26, 1985 issue
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-260/
A Myopic Account of a Relocated Life during the Second World War (ddr-densho-468-97)
doc A Myopic Account of a Relocated Life during the Second World War (ddr-densho-468-97)
Personal recollections of life in an assembly center and relocation camp for Japanese descendants and various digressions
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-97/
Letter from John S. Ishikawa to Frances Shirack (ddr-densho-468-126)
doc Letter from John S. Ishikawa to Frances Shirack (ddr-densho-468-126)
Request to send financial statements to National Student Relocation Council
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-126/
Oral Memoirs of Joseph Ishikawa (ddr-densho-468-94)
doc Oral Memoirs of Joseph Ishikawa (ddr-densho-468-94)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-94/
Letter from Joseph Ishikawa to Willis Hanson (ddr-densho-468-128)
doc Letter from Joseph Ishikawa to Willis Hanson (ddr-densho-468-128)
Two drafts of letter to Willis Hanson, the leave officer at Granada, explaining Ishikawa's leave for the University of Nebraska.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-128/
Nonfiction manuscript:
doc Nonfiction manuscript: "Road to Freedom" with submission letter and rejection letter (ddr-densho-468-158)
Manuscript of nonfiction narrative describing experience as Japanese-American seeking student leave from World War II incarceration. The manuscript incorporates letters to various college admission staff. Page one is a submission letter to the Yale Review. Page two is a rejection slip.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-158/
Writings on Student Relocation Program (ddr-densho-468-104)
doc Writings on Student Relocation Program (ddr-densho-468-104)
Narrative of Ishikawa's efforts to obtain student leave during incarceration. Narrative includes transcripts and copies of correspondence.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-104/
Educational Leave paperwork (ddr-densho-468-127)
doc Educational Leave paperwork (ddr-densho-468-127)
Certification and other paperwork authorizing Joseph Ishikawa to leave the Granada Relocation Area to attend school at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, NE.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-127/
Letter from Phil Okano to Alice Okano (ddr-densho-359-1212)
doc Letter from Phil Okano to Alice Okano (ddr-densho-359-1212)
Phil writes to his wife, Alice Okano, concerning life in the Amache Concentration Camp including activities at the high school and social gatherings. He also mentions an upcoming trip to Denver and trying to convince other families to leave the camp.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-359-1212/
Letter from Phil Okano to Alice Okano (ddr-densho-359-1211)
doc Letter from Phil Okano to Alice Okano (ddr-densho-359-1211)
Phil Okano writes to his wife, Alice Okano, concerning his travel from Caldwell, Idaho to Colorado .
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-359-1211/
Manzanar Bussei Guide 1943 (ddr-manz-4-259)
doc Manzanar Bussei Guide 1943 (ddr-manz-4-259)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-manz-4-259/
Document with photo and clippings titled
img Document with photo and clippings titled "Building the World of Tomorrow" (ddr-ajah-6-437)
Document with clippings and photo of Mitsuru Ikeda in graduation robes. Caption on page: Mitsuru Ikeda graduates high school while incarcerated in Amache, Colorado in January, Colorado in January 1945. He was born on June 14, 1927 in Alameda, CA.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-437/
Mitsuko Ikeda standing in snow (ddr-ajah-6-431)
img Mitsuko Ikeda standing in snow (ddr-ajah-6-431)
Caption below photo: Mitsuko Ikeda of Alameda, CA at Amache incarceration camp in the snow. Late 1943 to early 1945
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-431/
Mitsuko Ikeda at Amache (ddr-ajah-6-435)
img Mitsuko Ikeda at Amache (ddr-ajah-6-435)
Caption below photo: Mitsuko Ikeda in Amache incarceration camp, circa mid 1945, she was Harry Ikeda's second wife and the family was living in Alameda, CA before the war. Mitsuko died of cancer in 1953.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-435/
Water tower at Amache (ddr-ajah-6-430)
img Water tower at Amache (ddr-ajah-6-430)
Caption below photo: Water tower at Amache, Colorado, September 1943 to June 1945
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-430/
Portrait of Yasuyo
img Portrait of Yasuyo "Frances" Ikeda (ddr-ajah-6-442)
Caption below photo: Yasuyo "Frances" Ikeda at Amache incarceration camp in May 1945. She was from Alameda, CA.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-442/
Barracks in the snow at Amache (ddr-ajah-6-434)
img Barracks in the snow at Amache (ddr-ajah-6-434)
Caption below photo: Amache, Colorado incarceration camp. 1944
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-434/
Frances and Misuru Ikeda at Amache (ddr-ajah-6-436)
img Frances and Misuru Ikeda at Amache (ddr-ajah-6-436)
Caption below photo: Frances Yasuyo "Frances" Ikeda with brother, Mitsuru. Amache, Colorado, Block 6G, Building 7. May 1945. The Ikedas were from Alameda, CA.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-436/
Two women in snow outside barracks (ddr-ajah-6-484)
img Two women in snow outside barracks (ddr-ajah-6-484)
Caption below photo: Unknown Natsuno Inouye of Alameda, CA Amache, Colorado circa 1942-1945
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-484/
Two men sitting outside barracks (ddr-ajah-6-432)
img Two men sitting outside barracks (ddr-ajah-6-432)
Caption below photo: Mr. Kozono, Yoyoji "Harry" Ikeda of Alameda, CA. Amache, Colorado incarceration camp, September 1944
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-432/
Close-up of Yasuyo
img Close-up of Yasuyo "Frances" Ikeda (ddr-ajah-6-440)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-440/
Granada Pioneer Vol. I No. 49 (March 20, 1943) (ddr-densho-147-50)
doc Granada Pioneer Vol. I No. 49 (March 20, 1943) (ddr-densho-147-50)
Selected article titles: "Vocational Training Courses to be Given" (p. 1), "124 Volunteers Enlist in Nisei Combat Unit" (p. 1), "Los Angeles Area has Raid Alert" (p. 3), "Negroes Move into Lil' Tokyo" (p. 3), "Nisei Arrested in Bay Area" (p. 3).
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-147-50/
A Thousand Paper Cranes: How Denver's Japanese American Community Emerged from Internment (ddr-densho-1024-16)
av A Thousand Paper Cranes: How Denver's Japanese American Community Emerged from Internment (ddr-densho-1024-16)
Documentary film about the wartime incarceration and about Japanese Americans in Denver after the war. Scenes shot at the Amache site today serve as a backdrop for the incarceration stories, while the segments on Denver focus on the importance of Colorado Governor Ralph Carr and on Sakura Square, the symbolic center of Colorado's Japanese American community. …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1024-16/
Lillie McCabe (ddr-csujad-29-19)
img Lillie McCabe (ddr-csujad-29-19)
Photo of Lillie McCabe. Oral history audio and transcript are found in csufccop_jaoh_0030, csufccop_jaoh_0031, and csufccop_jaoh_0032. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: 1949_P03
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-29-19/
2 letters to Jeanne Kojima Miyoshi from Richard
doc 2 letters to Jeanne Kojima Miyoshi from Richard "Dick" Kojima (ddr-densho-480-167)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-480-167/
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