Leaving camp

doc Project directors report on evacuee resistances to relocation (ddr-densho-381-6)

Dillon S. Myer, War Relocation Authority Director, lists twelve reasons why he believes detainees are reluctant to leave the camps.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-381-6/

doc Statement by Dillon S. Myer about constitutional principles involved in the relocation program (ddr-densho-381-15)

A statement from Dillon S. Myer, Director of the War Relocation Authority, presented before the Costello Sub-committee of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Myer discusses the benefits of leave regulations in relation to the constitutionality of the evacuation and relocation program.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-381-15/

doc Yoshi Hibiya reference letter request (ddr-densho-381-174)

Myer, Dillon S.: author; War Relocation Authority: author

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-381-174/

doc WRA Citizen's Indefinite Leave card (ddr-densho-383-475)

Issued to Tamako Inouye at Minidoka, April 26, 1943. Destination listed as Cincinnati, Ohio. Card back has fingerprint and restriction that holder is not permitted to enter the prohibited area of the Western Defense Command.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-383-475/

doc WRA Citizen's Indefinite Leave card (ddr-densho-383-474)

Issued to George Tsuneyoshi Tokuda at Minidoka, May 13, 1943. Destination listed as Chicago, Illinois. Card back has fingerprint and restriction that holder is not permitted to enter the prohibited area of the Western Defense Command.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-383-474/

doc Basic Family Fact Sheet (ddr-densho-355-177)

Note: "relocated to Kalamazoo, Mich. 10/20/44"

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-355-177/

doc War Relocation Authority post-exclusion bulletin, number three (ddr-densho-381-26)

In post-exclusion bulletin number three, Acting Director John H. Provinse writes to clarify questions about detainee travel and visitor policies.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-381-26/

doc War Relocation Authority post-exclusion bulletin, number seven (ddr-densho-381-27)

Post-exclusion bulletin number seven addresses misunderstandings from earlier bulletins. Topics addressed include visitor policies, travel, and property transportation.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-381-27/

doc Letter from Chimata Sumida to Mr. Johnston (ddr-densho-379-239)

Chimata Sumida comments to Ray D. Johnston that the overly restrictive parole requirements for short-term leave cases is having a delay to his finding employment. He mentions that Mr. Titus, the relocation officer, is anxious to take him to Dayton for general purposes and also a number of farm possibilities in the area.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-379-239/

doc Letter from Rayko Grace Sumida to Chimata Sumida (ddr-densho-379-398)

Letter to Chimata Sumida about their plans to go to Los Angeles for 2 weeks to handle all the arrangements for selling the family home in Los Angeles. She also mentions that Yuri wrote the Provost Marshal's office was investigating Niseis working in big companies including McCalls and released because of their background from Standard Register.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-379-398/

doc Letter from Ray D. Johnston to Chimata Sumida (ddr-densho-379-237)

This letter releases Chimata Sumida from Rohwer Concentration Camp and allows him to move and live anywhere outside the Western Defense Command.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-379-237/

doc Letter from Yuri (Alice) Sumida Endo to Chimata Sumida (ddr-densho-379-26)

Alice (Yuri) Sumida Endo's letter two weeks after arriving at the American Friends Hostel describing life in comparison to Rohwer. She mentions that her husband, Frank Aiji Endo, is working at a bindery in Dayton, Ohio, and stays in a YMCA. She discusses the shortage of housing and recommends that no one be released from relocation …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-379-26/

doc Application for Leave Clearance (ddr-densho-379-393)

War Relocation Authority Notice of indefinite leave eligiblity for Grace Rayko Sumida.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-379-393/

doc Application for Leave Clearance for Katsuro Nagai (ddr-densho-379-341)

Ray Johnston, Project Director, issues indefinite leave clearance for Katsuro Nagai.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-379-341/

doc Letter from Grace Rayko Sumida to War Relocation Authority (ddr-densho-379-397)

Grace makes a formal request to the War Relocation Authority for permission for her brother, Marshall Sumida, and herself to leave to handle the arrangements for the forced sale of their former home in Los Angeles.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-379-397/

doc Letter from Chimata Sumida to Kats Nagai (ddr-densho-379-326)

Letter to assure Kats Nagai that his daughter Grace will be safe to visit him in Rohwer.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-379-326/

doc Interim Internee's At Large Agreement (ddr-densho-379-235)

Chimata Sumida's Interim Parolee Agreement transferring him from Rohwer Relocation Center to Washington, D.C.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-379-235/

doc Letter from Martha Nozawa to Tomoye (Nozawa) Takahashi (ddr-densho-423-441)

Has been working a lot, spent Christmas with the Inglis family, is anxious to hear about their thoughts about camp closing and return to California

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-423-441/

doc Envelope addressed to Henri Takahashi (ddr-densho-423-24)

Note on back saying rumor is that camps will close in August

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-423-24/

doc Letter from Martha Masako Nozawa to Tomoye Takahashi (ddr-densho-423-5)

Notes from meeting with WRA representative about relocating to St. Louis, and encourage Tomoye to look into it.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-423-5/

doc Letter from Martha Nozawa to Tomoyuki Nozawa and Tomoye and Henri Takahashi (ddr-densho-423-440)

Went to St. Louis to meet about possible job, but has decided not to take it after graduation, asks about how things are with the camp closing and people returning to California

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-423-440/

doc Letter from Martha Nozawa to Tomoye Takahashi (ddr-densho-423-10)

Concerns about people taking advantage of their father and what to do about it. Close to graduating and will come immediately to San Francisco. Name written on back of envelope: Yasutaro Saegusa.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-423-10/

doc Letter from Martha Nozawa to Tomoye Takahashi (ddr-densho-423-11)

Describing a New Year's party she attended in St. Louis, and opportunities for work in her field

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-423-11/

doc Letter from Martha Nozawa to Tomoye Takahashi (ddr-densho-423-12)

Describing various dates and particularly one man she has been seeing, plans to join them in San Francisco, hoping their father can come to her graduation.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-423-12/

doc Note from Tomoyuki Nozawa to Martha Nozawa (ddr-densho-423-346)

Telling her to cancel all their plans

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-423-346/

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