Minidoka

Concentration Camp

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doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-73)

Excerpt: "Summer seems officially here today. The past week has been very cold with the most persistent high wind I've seen." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-73/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-126)

Excerpt: "Wish this evacuation business has separated me from my friends."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-126/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-55)

Excerpt: "This has been my annual 'hell week' so there isn't a lot to write about." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-55/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-94)

Excerpt: "Take this quotation to your hearts not merely as words of a man fighting for a most highly and dearly cherished possession, his American citizenship..."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-94/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-35)

Excerpt: "It seems the excitement has been going all week." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-35/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-3)

Excerpt: "It has been a full week and last Monday seems years ago. Dr. Hanna came that day." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-3/

doc Student essay: "WAR" (ddr-densho-171-172)

Excerpt: "War would have a different meaning to everyone."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-172/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-21)

Excerpt: "Wednesday night was Episcopal choir." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-21/

doc Student essay: "What I think of War" (ddr-densho-171-110)

Excerpt: "I don't think there is any future in having wars."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-110/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-71)

Excerpt: "This past week I've been doing things between sneezes. My hay fever (sheep grass?) has hit me harder this year than before." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-71/

doc Student essay: "Freedom" (ddr-densho-171-132)

Excerpt: "Within the waters of the seven seas and on many distant land wanders forever the souls of brave men."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-132/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-5)

Excerpt: "Daddy's letter mailed the 19th finally arrived today. He sounds as though he were really making his mark!" Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-5/

doc Text of high school speech (ddr-densho-171-129)

Excerpt: "Many people will say that the solutions that we have discussed are idealogical, that they are impractical, and that they are hopeless."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-129/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-22)

Excerpt: "Sunday I slept most of the time I wasn't churching or eating or finishing my grades to give out yesterday." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-22/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-78)

Excerpt: "I feel positively luxurious now that we have both hour lunch periods and Saturday afternoons every Saturday." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-78/

doc Student essay: "War" (ddr-densho-171-181)

Excerpt: "While I scanned through the dictionary my eyes lighted on the word 'war.'"

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-181/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-63)

Excerpt: "If I thought I was busy at any time during the last two years, it was a mild form of self-indulgence!" Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-63/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-30)

Excerpt: "Last week was the first of harvest vacation and a welcome quiet spell." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-30/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-103)

Excerpt: "During these days of crisis Japanese American Citizens are put into a Concentration Camp as some call it..."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-103/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-104)

Excerpt: "A painful memory lingers in the heart of many Niseis -- a memory of those dark somber days of 1941, after the unexpected attack on Pearl Harbor."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-104/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-164)

Excerpt: "War to me is just misery and, an entire change of life for almost everybody."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-164/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-127)

Excerpt: "War, as everyone else says, is 'HELL.'" I wouldn't know what it is, for I have never experienced the horrors of it."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-127/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-68)

Excerpt: "It has been a beautiful sunny weekend. In spite of looking like spring, it's cold." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-68/

doc Student essay: "The Nisei Problem" (ddr-densho-171-152)

Excerpt: "After being put into camp, the Niseis are becomong soft and lazy."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-152/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-53)

Excerpt: "Monday before last I was invited to Father Joe's for a farewell dinner for Miss Hiota. It was all Japanese food with chopsticks." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-53/