Minidoka

Concentration Camp

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doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-7)

Excerpt: "I put my room to permanent rights at little more. Assembled my voluminous notes and bibliographies from Stanford into notebook covers purchased yesterday." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-7/

doc Student paper: "A Radio Skit" (ddr-densho-171-130)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-130/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-61)

Excerpt: "Lots of things happened last week until I don't know just whether I'm going or coming in my job." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-61/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-13)

Excerpt: "The latter refers to working with my four wild Indiands and seeing them growing into class leaders." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-13/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-50)

Excerpt: "Since then it has been a series of slow days that would have been leisurely if they hadn't been haunted by uncertainty and insidious developments." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-50/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-144)

Excerpt: "'I helped to win that World War II!'" No, I wasn't in the Army Air Corps, or the Navy, or even the Army; I stayed in the home front and did my part there."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-144/

doc Student essay: "The Future" (ddr-densho-171-116)

Excerpt: "I dream often of being a man married with a important job in a big concern."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-116/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-2)

Excerpt: "I'm not sure when I wrote last, was it on the train? As you probably noticed I took the Pacific limited to be sure of connections at Wells." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-2/

doc Student essay: "Mission accomplished" (ddr-densho-171-146)

Excerpt: "'Well boys we're allmost home,' say the pilot to his crew."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-146/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-29)

Excerpt: "I guess the vacation atmosphere of school has permeated my whole routine." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-29/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-139)

Excerpt: "If you have had a person dear to you pass away, you have felt the lonely, lost, and chilling feeling when you are all left along."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-139/

doc Student essay: "War" (ddr-densho-171-115)

Excerpt: "To my opinion, if the argument between two countries gets beyond the point of just debating, war is the only way out."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-115/

doc Letter from a camp teacher to her family (ddr-densho-171-17)

Excerpt: "Monday night we learned at choir that instead of a rehearsal Thursday we were getting a farewell concert for the project." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-17/

doc Student essay (ddr-densho-171-173)

Excerpt: "Mother nature has taken her own course again and we are having rain for too many days."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-171-173/

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 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/

img Camp recreational ceremony (ddr-densho-20-2)

James Terada and Harumi Iwakiri.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-20-2/