Minidoka

Concentration Camp

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doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-6)

Excerpt: "Last weekend we had a wonderful trip -- I think I wrote you about it. Monday night was choir." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-6/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-175)

Excerpt: "The dismal wail on the train whislle and the constant roar of the rusty wheels underneath kept me from sleeping."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-175/

doc Student essay: "The Stepping Stones of Our Life" (ddr-densho-171-95)

Excerpt: "Many of us are dissatisifed with our life in this community, but we shouldn't be very dismayed."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-95/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-74)

Excerpt: "I hope your vacation is proving as restful and congenial as mine. I'm indulging all my repressed tastes!" Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-74/

doc Student essay: "To the Honored Dead" (ddr-densho-171-112)

Excerpt: "This is to the honored dead! This is to the unselfish ones who laid aside the flourishing pen and substituted for it a civilization with the hammer and saw..."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-112/

doc Student essay: "My Reactions About the War" (ddr-densho-171-101)

Excerpt: "I don't see why they keep referring to us American citizens as Japs while Germans and Italians are called Americans."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-101/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-143)

Excerpt: "As I was walking down the main street of Seattle, I saw a large crowd gathered on the corner."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-143/

doc Student essay: "Foreword" (ddr-densho-171-97)

Excerpt: "In this paragraph I put myself in the shoes of a loyal American Youth of Tomorrow."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-97/

doc Student essay: "War" (ddr-densho-171-166)

Excerpt: "Perhaps many of us partially realize what this simple noun 'War' actually means."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-166/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-52)

Excerpt: "Monday was calm enough -- Bob Coombs returned from Sacamento in fine shape and we got up to date on news." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-52/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-40)

Excerpt: "Tonight I'm sitting in the shadow of my social life dashing this off while I wait for the Chinese checker game to begin." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-40/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-7)

Excerpt: "I put my room to permanent rights at little more. Assembled my voluminous notes and bibliographies from Stanford into notebook covers purchased yesterday." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-7/

doc Student paper: "A Radio Skit" (ddr-densho-171-130)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-130/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-61)

Excerpt: "Lots of things happened last week until I don't know just whether I'm going or coming in my job." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-61/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-13)

Excerpt: "The latter refers to working with my four wild Indiands and seeing them growing into class leaders." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-13/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-50)

Excerpt: "Since then it has been a series of slow days that would have been leisurely if they hadn't been haunted by uncertainty and insidious developments." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-50/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-144)

Excerpt: "'I helped to win that World War II!'" No, I wasn't in the Army Air Corps, or the Navy, or even the Army; I stayed in the home front and did my part there."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-144/

doc Student essay: "The Future" (ddr-densho-171-116)

Excerpt: "I dream often of being a man married with a important job in a big concern."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-116/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-2)

Excerpt: "I'm not sure when I wrote last, was it on the train? As you probably noticed I took the Pacific limited to be sure of connections at Wells." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-2/

doc Student essay: "Mission accomplished" (ddr-densho-171-146)

Excerpt: "'Well boys we're allmost home,' say the pilot to his crew."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-146/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-29)

Excerpt: "I guess the vacation atmosphere of school has permeated my whole routine." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-29/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-139)

Excerpt: "If you have had a person dear to you pass away, you have felt the lonely, lost, and chilling feeling when you are all left along."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-139/

doc Student essay: "War" (ddr-densho-171-115)

Excerpt: "To my opinion, if the argument between two countries gets beyond the point of just debating, war is the only way out."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-115/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-17)

Excerpt: "Monday night we learned at choir that instead of a rehearsal Thursday we were getting a farewell concert for the project." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-17/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-173)

Excerpt: "Mother nature has taken her own course again and we are having rain for too many days."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-173/