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Holidays and festivals

Striving to maintain normal lives, Japanese Americans held holiday celebrations and festivals inside the concentration camps. Whether decorating mess halls during the Christmas holiday as part of a camp-wide competition or participating in parades to celebrate the harvest of crops from their own gardens, the Japanese Americans demonstrated their resourcefulness and resilience.

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Christmas (ddr-densho-37-49)
img Christmas (ddr-densho-37-49)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-49/
Diners in a mess hall decorated for Christmas (ddr-densho-37-1299)
img Diners in a mess hall decorated for Christmas (ddr-densho-37-1299)
Included annotation: F-306, Christmas, Mess Hall.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1299/
Dr. Lawsome's audience (ddr-densho-37-1282)
img Dr. Lawsome's audience (ddr-densho-37-1282)
Included annotation: D-303, Audience.
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Flag-raising ceremony for July 4th (ddr-densho-37-1605)
img Flag-raising ceremony for July 4th (ddr-densho-37-1605)
Included annotation: L-607, 4th July, Flag raising ceremony.
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Christmas celebration (ddr-densho-37-503)
img Christmas celebration (ddr-densho-37-503)
Original WRA caption: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Christmas at the Granada Relocation Center didn't provide a Christmas tree for each barracks room home, but there was one at each mess hall, and it is the steward himself in a pair of red pajamas and a Santa Claus mask that makes the yuletide real for these …
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Letter to Yuri Domoto from Yoshito Shibata (ddr-densho-356-232)
doc Letter to Yuri Domoto from Yoshito Shibata (ddr-densho-356-232)
Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Yoshito Shibata in which he acknowledges receiving two letters from Yuri, what the Christmas celebration was like at Camp Savage, the response to his report on the recruitment trip to WRA camps, meeting Chris Ishii, the change in daily routine at Camp Savage to include more physical training, inquires into …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-232/
Letter to Yuri Domoto from Yoshito Shibata (ddr-densho-356-230)
doc Letter to Yuri Domoto from Yoshito Shibata (ddr-densho-356-230)
Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Yoshito Shibata in which he discusses his report on his recruitment trip to WRA camps, his recent trip to Minneapolis, his thoughts on Christmas in the army vs. in camp, and censorship of the mail. While in Minneapolis visited a florist that use to do business with the Domoto Bros …
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New Year's celebration (ddr-densho-159-168)
img New Year's celebration (ddr-densho-159-168)
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Summer carnival (ddr-densho-159-288)
img Summer carnival (ddr-densho-159-288)
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Summer carnival (ddr-densho-159-281)
img Summer carnival (ddr-densho-159-281)
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Obon festival (ddr-densho-159-232)
img Obon festival (ddr-densho-159-232)
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Summer carnival (ddr-densho-159-284)
img Summer carnival (ddr-densho-159-284)
Playing bingo.
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Japanese Americans making mochi (ddr-densho-159-161)
img Japanese Americans making mochi (ddr-densho-159-161)
Preparing mochi (rice cakes) for New Year's celebrations.
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Summer carnival (ddr-densho-159-280)
img Summer carnival (ddr-densho-159-280)
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New Year's celebration (ddr-densho-159-172)
img New Year's celebration (ddr-densho-159-172)
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New Year's celebration (ddr-densho-159-171)
img New Year's celebration (ddr-densho-159-171)
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Summer carnival (ddr-densho-159-277)
img Summer carnival (ddr-densho-159-277)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-159-277/
Obon festival (ddr-densho-159-238)
img Obon festival (ddr-densho-159-238)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-159-238/
Summer carnival (ddr-densho-159-285)
img Summer carnival (ddr-densho-159-285)
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Summer carnival (ddr-densho-159-278)
img Summer carnival (ddr-densho-159-278)
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New Year's celebration (ddr-densho-159-169)
img New Year's celebration (ddr-densho-159-169)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-159-169/
Obon festival (ddr-densho-159-234)
img Obon festival (ddr-densho-159-234)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-159-234/
Summer carnival (ddr-densho-159-287)
img Summer carnival (ddr-densho-159-287)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-159-287/
Japanese Americans making mochi (ddr-densho-159-160)
img Japanese Americans making mochi (ddr-densho-159-160)
Rice is being pounded into mochi (rice cakes) for New Year's celebrations.
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Summer carnival (ddr-densho-159-274)
img Summer carnival (ddr-densho-159-274)
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-159-274/
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