Minidoka

Concentration Camp

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Current view of the Minidoka concentration camp (ddr-densho-35-31)
img Current view of the Minidoka concentration camp (ddr-densho-35-31)
Remains of the Minidoka concentration camp. According to a former camp inmate, the chimney was part of a waiting room for camp visitors. The irrigation canal on the right is where Japanese Americans used to swim.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-35-31/
Office workers at Minidoka (ddr-densho-348-6)
img Office workers at Minidoka (ddr-densho-348-6)
Group photograph of office workers taken in the Administration Building at Minidoka concentration camps.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-348-6/
Memoirs 1944 (ddr-densho-348-11)
doc Memoirs 1944 (ddr-densho-348-11)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-348-11/
Four sisters (ddr-densho-348-8)
img Four sisters (ddr-densho-348-8)
Four sisters, Mary, Imelda, Mary Jane, and Irene who all returned to Minidoka concentration camp from the East Coast for their brother Francis "Bako" Kinoshita's funeral.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-348-8/
Office workers at Minidoka (ddr-densho-348-5)
img Office workers at Minidoka (ddr-densho-348-5)
Group photograph of office workers taken at the Administration Building in Minidoka concentration camp.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-348-5/
Fred Suyekichi and Akino Kinoshita receiving a flag (ddr-densho-348-12)
img Fred Suyekichi and Akino Kinoshita receiving a flag (ddr-densho-348-12)
Fred Suyekichi and Akino Kinoshita (center and left) receive a flag in honor of their son Staff Sergeant Francis "Bako" Kinoshita, killed in action in World War II, accompanied by a family friend (right).
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-348-12/
Brother and sister (ddr-densho-348-7)
img Brother and sister (ddr-densho-348-7)
Imelda and Chuck Kinoshita in Minidoka concentration camp. Imelda had returned from the East Coast to attend their brother Francis "Bako" Kinoshita's funeral.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-348-7/
Mary Kinoshita wartime ID (ddr-densho-348-10)
doc Mary Kinoshita wartime ID (ddr-densho-348-10)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-348-10/
Otees basketball team in team jackets (ddr-densho-348-3)
img Otees basketball team in team jackets (ddr-densho-348-3)
Otees played in the Minidoka basketball league.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-348-3/
Minidoka basketball team (ddr-densho-348-1)
img Minidoka basketball team (ddr-densho-348-1)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-348-1/
Japanese Americans clearing fields (ddr-densho-37-699)
img Japanese Americans clearing fields (ddr-densho-37-699)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-699/
Japanese Americans harvesting onions (ddr-densho-37-714)
img Japanese Americans harvesting onions (ddr-densho-37-714)
Original WRA caption: High school boys and girls pull onions on the project farm during harvest vacation.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-714/
Japanese American in a field (ddr-densho-37-730)
img Japanese American in a field (ddr-densho-37-730)
Original WRA caption: Mr. Kamaya examining plants, soy bean field.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-730/
WAC recruitment (ddr-densho-37-32)
img WAC recruitment (ddr-densho-37-32)
Original WRA caption: An evacuee girl is interviewed by three members of the WAC who visited the Minidoka Relocation Center to accept enlistment of Japanese-American girls.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-32/
Camp painting (ddr-densho-37-742)
img Camp painting (ddr-densho-37-742)
This painting was done by Fumio Hanaguchi.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-742/
Three children in a camp dining hall (ddr-densho-37-10)
img Three children in a camp dining hall (ddr-densho-37-10)
Original WRA caption: Christmas 1944.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-10/
Administration building (ddr-densho-37-825)
img Administration building (ddr-densho-37-825)
Original WRA caption: Minidoka Relocation Center, Hunt, Idaho. Main administration building.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-825/
Christmas (ddr-densho-37-49)
img Christmas (ddr-densho-37-49)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-49/
Hog farm (ddr-densho-37-716)
img Hog farm (ddr-densho-37-716)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-716/
Coal crew (ddr-densho-37-700)
img Coal crew (ddr-densho-37-700)
Original WRA caption: Half of special coal crew which trucked --- tons of coal five miles from Hunt siding to Minidoka Relocation Center in --- months. One crew worked nights and the other days.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-700/
Fire station (ddr-densho-37-35)
img Fire station (ddr-densho-37-35)
Each camp had its own fire station staffed by volunteers.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-35/
Camp street (ddr-densho-37-823)
img Camp street (ddr-densho-37-823)
Original WRA caption: Minidoka Relocation Center, Hunt, Idaho. Looking down the rows of barracks westward from block 44. At extreme left is a corner of the dining hall where the 275 to 300 residents of the block eat. At center background is the sanitation building including showers, lavatories, toilets and washtubs. Nearly all the residents planted …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-823/
Buddhist altar (ddr-densho-37-732)
img Buddhist altar (ddr-densho-37-732)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-732/
Parents mending clothes (ddr-densho-37-43)
img Parents mending clothes (ddr-densho-37-43)
Original WRA caption: Parents assist in mending for children at the Hunt Nursery School.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-43/
Flooded conditions (ddr-densho-37-689)
img Flooded conditions (ddr-densho-37-689)
Original WRA caption: Flooded area between barracks in Block 3.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-689/
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