Returning home

When the camps closed, Japanese Americans were handed $25 and put on trains headed for the places they had been forcibly removed from nearly four years earlier. Harassment was common -- many returning Japanese Americans were greeted with signs reading "No Japs Allowed." Other discovered their property had been vandalized or stolen. Homes and businesses that had been boarded up or left in the care of others were abandoned and stripped of furnishings and goods. For the majority, who did not have homes to return to, housing was the most serious problem. Housing discrimination was severe in many areas and persisted to varying degrees until the civil rights legislation of the 1960s. Former camp inmates with no other options moved into hostels and converted community institutions with conditions not much better than the camps they had just left. Although this period was stressful, it is remembered as a time when people came together to share what they had.

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doc Letter from Tomoye Takahashi to Samuel Faber (ddr-densho-410-585)

Sending reimbursement for work done on the house and un-used rent, and apologizing that they had to ask them to leave

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-585/

doc Letter from Tomoye (Nozawa) Takahashi to Henri Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-445)

Hopes he will find temporary work to do when he has two weeks off, he doesn't need to come to Topaz because Martha will come to help her, Pinkie has been staying with her father while she is in the hospital

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-445/

doc Telegram from Samuel Faber to Tomoye Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-584)

Informing her that they have an opportunity to move sooner, but asks about compensation for un-used rent and costs of cleaning and repairing the house

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-584/

doc Letter from Frank Nedbal to Tomoye Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-575)

Concerning the difficulty of having the current tenants (Dr. and Mrs. Faber) move out of the house on Arguello Blvd so the Takahashi's can move back in after leaving camp. Any changes in rentals must be approved by the Office of Price Administration. Nedbal believes it will not be possible to have the house until July, …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-575/

doc Letter from Helen to Tomoye Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-174)

Has arrived in Salt Lake City and will stay a few days before heading to San Francisco.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-174/

doc Letter from Martha Nozawa to Henri Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-144)

Will come out to San Francisco soon, asks about situation there for Japanese. Envelope is not for this letter.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-144/

doc Letter from Tomoye to Henri Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-172)

Mad at Henri for not answering her letters, for intervening in Helen's relationships, mad at Helen for not being as helpful as she claimed, mad that people in camp call them rich when they are actually broke. Pinkie still with chicken pox.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-172/

doc Letter from Tomoye Takahashi to Henri Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-435)

Her father's plans to return to S.F. and stay with Henri, Martha planning to come to camp to help when the baby is born. Handwritten note on back of envelope

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-435/

doc Letter from Martha Nozawa to Tomoye (Nozawa) Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-430)

Finally decided her schedule for coming to help with the new baby, and plans for a job, is getting used to the idea of being unmarried

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-430/

doc Envelope addressed to Henri Takahashi from Tomoye (Nozawa) Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-434)

With note on back about friends coming to San Francisco to stay with Henri

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-434/

doc Letter from Tomoye Takahashi to Henri Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-412)

Martha's plans to stay in Minnesota for a job with her former professor, Pinkie still in quarantine, likely for chicken pox, anxious to find a house for her father to buy in San Francisco, thoughts on various marriageable women in camp for her father, hopes to be able to buy a house in Berkeley some day.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-412/

doc WRA Alien's Short Term Leave permission (ddr-densho-410-393)

For Henri Takahashi to travel to New York City from Topaz Camp to survey relocation possibilities

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-393/

doc Letter from John Light, Evacuee Property Supervisor to Luther Hoffman, Director, Topaz (ddr-densho-410-579)

Outlining actions taken to negotiate the eviction of the Fabers from the house on Arguello Blvd so the Takahashi can move in

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-579/

doc Card from Tomoye to Henri Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-155)

Concerns about treatment by non-Japanese, asks him to check on friends property, news of Helen's applications for work at Stanford.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-155/

doc Letter from Tomoye Takahashi to Henri Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-437)

Details about what to do in the S.F. house, how to arrange the house, plans to get cribs and a buggy, hopes to build stairway to the back yard

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-437/

doc Letter from Frank Nedbal to Tomoye Takahashi with copy of notice of vacating premises sent to Samuel and Miriam Faber. (ddr-densho-410-576)

Informing Tomoye of the paperwork that needs to be filed to have the Fabers move out of the house on Arguello Blvd, a move the Fabers are opposing

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-576/

doc Envelope containing 2 letters, 2 cards and a telegram (ddr-densho-410-100)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-100/

doc Letter from Tomoye to Henri Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-171)

Someone from camp is planning to come to SF and move in with Henri, gossip about people in camp, discussing father's plans to marry.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-171/

doc Acknowledgement of reimbursement of rent and costs from Tomoye Takahashi to Samuel Faber (ddr-densho-410-586)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-586/

doc Three postcard in envelope from Tomoye (Nozawa) Takahashi to Henri Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-424)

Details about getting possessions out of storage, news of amount of resettlement funds available but need to apply soon, her father is coming to S.F. Envelope with note on back.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-424/

doc Letter from Tomoye (Nozawa) Takahashi to Henri Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-444)

Discusses their financial situation, Martha's plans to come to Topaz to help when baby comes, tells him not to worry about Helen, someone will want to marry her and he should stay out of it. Tomoye is in the hospital on bed rest for now, but feeling fine.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-444/

doc Letter from Tomoye Takahashi to Henri Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-428)

Updates on the pregnancy, her father's plans, camp rumors that the 442nd was planning to volunteer to fight the Japanese, possibility of accessing Henri's frozen bank account

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-428/

doc Letter from Ben Murota? to Tomoye Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-161)

Written from France, asking how relocation is going, what is happening at Topaz

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-161/

doc Letter from Tomoye to Henri Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-180)

Lots of conflict with her father about the possibility of marrying Mrs. Harada, and camp gossip about her motives for wanting to marry Mr. Nozawa, asks about job prospects.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-180/

doc Telegram from Marian to Tommy (Tomoye Takahashi) (ddr-densho-410-405)

Asking how to contact Henry in San Francisco, and potential for housing there

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-405/