Minidoka

Concentration Camp

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doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-38)

Excerpt: "Our enrollment is sky rocketing beyond our wildest estimate and yet we must be prepared to have many relocate or graduate in February." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-38/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-36)

Excerpt: "Winter has replaced autumn, and fact has replaced rumor." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-36/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-25)

Excerpt: "I know Tues. was a Relocation Guidance Comm. Meeting that lasted all the afternoon Tues. and Wed. mornings." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-25/

doc Student essay: "War" (ddr-densho-171-124)

Excerpt: "War! It is just a 3-letter word, but what a lot of sorrow and bloodshed a little word like that can hold."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-124/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-11)

Excerpt: "The next day we had school with classes meeting for 15 minute periods. John got back from Seattle that morning too. He has hopes of a commission in the procurement division." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-11/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-62)

Excerpt: "My all-too-brief vacation is over but I've stretched it it a bit with a convenient cold." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-62/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-178)

Excerpt: "He sits there on the gayly colored cusion, as I try vigorously to concentrate on my homework."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-178/

doc Letter to an Issei from U.S. Attorney J. Charles Dennis (ddr-densho-166-14)

This is a response to a letter from Masaye Mayeno, requesting a rehearing for her husband Kunizo who was being held in a Department of Justice internment camp.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-166-14/

doc Drawing by a Nisei man (ddr-densho-166-15)

This drawing was done by Nisei Art Mayeno in Minidoka. He later submitted it to Burnley School of Art in Seattle as an admissions requirement.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-166-15/

doc Painting by a Nisei man (ddr-densho-166-16)

This painting, titled "Playing Go in the furnace room in Minidoka," was done by Nisei Art Mayeno in camp. He later submitted it to Burnley School of Art in Seattle as an admissions requirement.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-166-16/

img Children in front of barrack (ddr-densho-166-3)

Left to right: Naomi Yabusaki, Masashi Warren Sakai, two unidentified girls, and Ayako Nancy.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-166-3/

doc Letter from an Issei man to his wife (ddr-densho-166-12)

This letter was sent from Kunizo Mayeno in the Lordsburg internment camp, New Mexico, to his wife Masaye at the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-166-12/

doc Letter regarding an Issei man's arrival at Minidoka (ddr-densho-157-207)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-157-207/

img Party for a Nisei soldier (ddr-densho-20-7)

This is a party for Hiroshi "Junior" Okawa, who was on leave from the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. Left to right: Hideye Yasubaki, Fujiko Ishibashi, unidentified, Dr. Ishibashi, Kiyoshi Okawa, Hiroshi "Junior" Okawa, Suzu Okawa, unidentified, unidentified, unidentified, and unidentified. Yoshiro Okawa is in the back.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-20-7/

img Elementary school princesses (ddr-densho-20-3)

Elementary school princesses. Left to right: Unidentified, unidentified, Miyuki Hasegawa, Julie Hikida, Marianne Okawa, Haruko Nishimura, Kazuko Noji, Frank Sato, unidentified, Harumi Iwakiri.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-20-3/