Minidoka

Concentration Camp

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doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-69)

Excerpt: "This should be an afternoon of great accomplishment -- I can't be outside because it's windy and dusty..." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-69/

doc Student essay "Eighteen Seventy Five" (ddr-densho-171-131)

Excerpt: "A low fast enemy plane swoops down upon the lone American outpost somwhere in the South Pacific, firing all six guns in unison."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-131/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-72)

Excerpt: "Not much has happened since I last wrote, but the weekend is booked full and I'm not sure when I'll get another chance." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-72/

doc Student essay: "War" (ddr-densho-171-162)

Excerpt: "The battle fields of every war are just a human slaughter house, where a person if he's lucky will come out alive..."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-162/

doc Student essay: "WAR!!!" (ddr-densho-171-118)

Excerpt: "War, the root of all evil has again descented upon humanity."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-118/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-176)

Excerpt: "I was a little girl in pigtails when I had my first experience with false fingernails."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-176/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-167)

Excerpt: "The house was surrounded by a deathly stillness that covered its two companions inside like a cloak."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-167/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-4)

Excerpt: "First, thank you for the many packages. The hangers and lamp came Saturday." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-4/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-9)

Excerpt: "Our weather last night was something to write home about. Yesterday was overcast, warm and calm. At midnight it was cleary and starry." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-9/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-24)

Excerpt: "Monday noon one of my favorite seniors came in with word he had to go home to bed and would probably have a hernia operation Thursday." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-24/

doc Student essay: "War" (ddr-densho-171-99)

Excerpt: "War is hell! Innocent children, men and women are killed by bombs, billions of dollars are spent for ships, planes, and guns..."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-99/

doc Student essay: "What War Means to Me" (ddr-densho-171-120)

Excerpt: "To many people, it means fighting over the land for what we had thought we had won in 1918."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-120/

doc Memorandum: General Mass Meeting (ddr-densho-171-187)

To: All Adult Members of the Appointed Staff residing on the Project

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-187/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-34)

Excerpt: "It's late, but I drank quite a bit of coffee at a party here in the dorm tonight and I'm not sleepy." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-34/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-159)

Excerpt: "The sudden return of the many students who were formerly attending N.Y.A. school settle throughout the country struck me rather strange."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-159/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-46)

Excerpt: "We have our ups and downs here. After I got back from the coast we felt quite calm because we'd done all we could and the evacuees and students and faculty had been almost unanimous in Jerry's support." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-46/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-45)

Excerpt: "Briefly, last week was nightmarish from Sunday on." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-45/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-148)

Excerpt: "From the first time I knew what war was like, I hated it."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-148/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-26)

Excerpt: "I'm celebrating my first Saturday afternoon off by a weekend spree and revelling in civilization!" Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-26/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-64)

Excerpt: "Evelyn Rose of the Washington statistics office -- she spent two weeks here last June and lived in the dorms -- was here again week before last." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-64/

doc Student essay: "Serenade in Blue" (ddr-densho-171-93)

Excerpt: "Perspiring freely the young teacher at the map continued to explain the current topic."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-93/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-135)

Excerpt: "While waiting in front of a soda fountain for a trolley to take me home, I purchanced to overhear two boys arguing."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-135/

doc Student essay: "How War Effects Man in theh fighting front" (ddr-densho-171-125)

Excerpt: "When many men go out to war and across the sea, at least nine out of ten may not come back."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-125/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-20)

Excerpt: "I'll start this now although Mr. Fogarty will be coming any minute to take me down to school." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-20/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-180)

Excerpt: "Yesterday after supper as my friend and I were talking on the way to class a dark peculiar form fell over us."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-180/