Minidoka

Concentration Camp

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img Parade in camp (ddr-densho-156-25)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-156-25/

img Japanese Americans creating a garden (ddr-densho-156-38)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-156-38/

doc Student essay: "Me" (ddr-densho-156-46)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-156-46/

doc Divisions, Sections and Units on the Minidoka Project (ddr-densho-156-95)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-156-95/

img Funeral service in camp (ddr-densho-156-34)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-156-34/

doc Draft of Quarterly Report for Period Ending March 31, 1943, Minidoka (ddr-densho-156-416)

Sent to War Relocation Authority Director Dillon S. Myer.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-156-416/

doc Student essay: "A Review of 1942" (ddr-densho-156-84)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-156-84/

doc Letter to the Minidoka Irrigator (ddr-densho-156-124)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-156-124/

doc Stafford Press, February 1944 (ddr-densho-156-430)

Publication of the Sixth Grade, Stafford School, Minidoka concentration camp.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-156-430/

doc Letter regarding an Issei man's travel request (ddr-densho-157-208)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-157-208/

av An Oral History with Ikuko Amatatsu Watanabe (ddr-csujad-29-12)

Nisei district manager of an educational corporation discusses samurai ancestry; childhood on Bainbridge Island, Washington, and makeup of Bainbridge Japanese community; incarceration at the Manzanar camp, California, including circumstances as to why Bainbridge Islanders were transferred to the Minidoka camp in Idaho; wartime resettlement to Chicago; and postwar years in California, with particular attention to discriminatory …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-29-12/

doc Termination Notice for Chairman of Community Council (ddr-sbbt-2-33)

A termination notice for Yoshito Fujii upon his retirement from the role of Chairman of Community Council.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-sbbt-2-33/

doc Letter from T. Nogaki to T. Hirokane and Y. Fujii (ddr-sbbt-2-21)

A letter from T. Nogaki to Messrs. T. Hirokane and Y. Fujii with updates on living in Chicago and requesting information about supplies needed in the Minidoka concentration camp.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-sbbt-2-21/

doc Board of Directors election rules (ddr-sbbt-2-19)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-sbbt-2-19/

doc Letter from H. Leon Yager to Harry L. Stafford (ddr-sbbt-2-32)

A letter from H. Leon Yager to Harry L. Stafford regarding personal histories for Yukiko and Yoshito Fujii.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-sbbt-2-32/

doc Letter to Harry L. Stafford (ddr-sbbt-2-29)

An unsigned letter addressed to Harry L. Stafford explaining what information would be helpful to incarcerees as they leave camp. The author, likely Yoshito Fujii, requests to become a field agent for the War Relocation Authority to gather information from the eastern United States to assist incarcerees in finding opportunities outside of the camps.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-sbbt-2-29/

doc Letter from Yoshito Fujii to Herman Leon Yager (ddr-sbbt-2-17)

A response letter from Yoshito Fujii to Herman Leon Yager about a Japanese language teaching position at the University of Pennsylvania.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-sbbt-2-17/

doc Letter to H. Leon Yager from Yoshito Fujii (ddr-sbbt-2-34)

A response letter to H. Leon Yager from Yoshito Fujii with an enclosed personal history statement.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-sbbt-2-34/

img Funeral conducted by Reverend Terao (ddr-sbbt-2-22)

Funeral attendees surround a casket draped in flowers at the Minidoka concentration camp. Reverend Terao presides over the funeral of Mr. Nakazaki, who passed away from cancer at Minidoka Hospital. Japanese text written on verso.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-sbbt-2-22/

doc Meeting of the Community Council and the Block Commissioners with Mr. Myer (ddr-sbbt-2-31)

Community council members and block commissioners meet with Mr. Dillon S. Meyer, outlining the difficulties of leaving Minidoka and present a series of requests.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-sbbt-2-31/

doc Memorial service message (ddr-sbbt-2-28)

A memorial service message with accompanying photograph photocopies, memorializing the loss of Japanese-American soldiers.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-sbbt-2-28/

doc Relocation planning commission (ddr-sbbt-2-26)

Meeting minutes for the relocation planning commission at Minidoka concentration camp.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-sbbt-2-26/

img Amatatsu family at the Minidoka camp (ddr-csujad-29-220)

Photograph titled: "The Amatatsu family is here pictured on the steps of their barrack at the Minidoka camp in 1943, just prior to the interviewee's resettlement to Chicago. Flanking Ikuko in the back row are sisters, Michi and Elsie; in the front row is her mother Taka and sister Kay." See this object in the California …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-29-220/

doc Press release re: postponement of Day of Remembrance at Minidoka (ddr-densho-122-180)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-122-180/

doc Press Release for Day of Remembrance Pilgrimage to Minidoka (ddr-densho-122-183)

Updated

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-122-183/