Manzanar

Concentration Camp

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img Barracks construction (ddr-densho-34-172)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-34-172/

img Headstone (ddr-densho-34-166)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-34-166/

img Muddy conditions at Manzanar (ddr-densho-34-184)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-34-184/

img Women decorating barracks room (ddr-densho-34-194)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-34-194/

img Barracks (ddr-densho-34-180)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-34-180/

img Family outside their barrack (ddr-densho-34-163)

The Takemoto family outside their barrack at the Manzanar concentration camp, California.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-34-163/

img In Memory of Manzanar Plaque (ddr-densho-508-7)

Two sided plaque with Japanese characters on front. Inscription on back reads "IN MEMORY OF MANZANAR 1942"

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-508-7/

img Manzanar and Tule Lake Plaque (ddr-densho-508-6)

Two sided plaque with Japanese characters on front. Inscription on back reads "OUR SEGREGATION TRAIN LEFT MANZANAR ON THE MORNING OF FEBRUARY 21-1944 AND AFTER PASSING THROUGH SNOWY CALIFORNIA ARRIVED AT TULE LAKE THE NEXT NIGHT"

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-508-6/

doc Memoir: "The Ishikawa Family Who Came to America" (ddr-densho-468-96)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-96/

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/

doc Short story: "Grace Sato was happier than she'd been" (ddr-densho-468-9)

Typed draft. Story follows a woman who is shot and killed while attempting to escape Manzanar to elope with a Caucasian sailor .

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-9/

doc Oral Memoirs of Joseph Ishikawa (ddr-densho-468-94)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-468-94/

doc Seattle Post-Intelligencer (ddr-densho-446-451)

Selected articles: Seattle woman's saga captured in photo (p.1-2); Club Asia (p. 2)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-446-451/

img Man and boy at Manzanar (ddr-densho-359-1448)

Jitsuzo and Wayne Nakata pose for a photograph next to a sprinkler at Manzanar Concentration Camp in California.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-359-1448/

img Portrait of a baby (ddr-densho-359-1091)

Lynn Iwasa. The portrait is signed "To Mr. + Mrs. Otsuka Eisei Lynn". The caption in the album is "5 mos. old".

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-359-1091/

img Three boys at Manzanar (ddr-densho-359-1445)

Don, Bob, and Wayne Nakata

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-359-1445/

img Portrait of young boy (ddr-densho-359-1087)

Portrait of Kyoji Ralph Iwasa at Manzanar Concentration Camp in California. The photograph is signed "To Mr. + Mrs. Otsuka Kyoji Ralph Iwasa". The caption written in the album "1 yr. 7 mos."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-359-1087/

img Group photograph at Manzanar (ddr-densho-359-1443)

Nakata family:back row, left to right: John and Pauline Nakata, Sachan Nakata, Yonchan and Kyoichi Iwasa, Ken Nakata; front row, left to right: Shima Nakata with Ralph Iwasa, Wayne Nakata, Bob Nakata, Don Nakata, Jitsuzo Nakata

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-359-1443/

img Two boys in gis (ddr-densho-359-1446)

Two boys pose in gis outside the barracks at Manzanar Concentration Camp. Bob Nakata is on the left

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-359-1446/

img Eddie and Jeanette Otsuka photograph album (ddr-densho-359-758)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-359-758/

img Family portrait (ddr-densho-359-1086)

A family portrait taken at Manzanar Concentration Camp in California. The photograph is signed "To Mr. + Mrs Otsuka Iwasa Family 5/22/43". Kyoichi Iwasa with Ralph Iwasa, Yonchan Iwasa with Lynn Iwasa

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-359-1086/