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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img Camp Christmas decorations (ddr-densho-37-680)

Original WRA caption: Block 36 saw favor in the judge's eyes for fifth place in the Christmas dining hall decorations contest, by its homey atmosphere and clever decorations made out of waste material.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-680/

img Performers in a Christmas pageant (ddr-densho-37-1307)

Included annotation: H-302, Christmas Pageant.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1307/

img Color guard at July 4th parade (ddr-densho-37-1600)

Included annotation: L-601, 4th of July Parade, Color Guards.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1600/

img Crowd at a Thanksgiving program (ddr-densho-37-1223)

Included annotation: R-207, Thanksgiving Program, Butte.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1223/

img Christmas choir at a hospital tea party (ddr-densho-37-1251)

Included annotation: W-206, Hospital Silver Tea Party, 12/5, Christmas carol choir.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1251/

img Bingo at a carnival (ddr-densho-37-1218)

Included annotation: R-202, Carnival, Canal.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1218/

img Shepherds in a Christmas pageant (ddr-densho-37-1306)

Included annotation: H-301, Christmas Pageant.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1306/

img Christmas decorations (ddr-densho-37-11)

Original WRA caption: Christmas decorations in Block 1 dining hall.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-11/

img Children at a Christmas event (ddr-densho-37-1301)

Included annotation: F-308, Christmas, Mess Hall.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1301/

img Christmas decorations in a mess hall (ddr-densho-37-1297)

Included annotation: F-304, Christmas Decoration.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-1297/

img Labor Day queen and her court (ddr-densho-37-322)

Original WRA caption: The labor day queen and her attendants are shown at the coronation ceremony which was a part of the celebration at this relocation center.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-322/

doc Amache Carnival Souvenir (ddr-densho-356-1042)

A silk screen printed image on a tag. The image is of an cartoon Native American head with the words "Carnival So--nir 1943 Compliments of Silk Screen" surrounding it.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-1042/

doc Christmas Card to Yuri Domoto from Min (ddr-densho-356-302)

Christmas card to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Minoru Yonekura. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-277 and ddr-densho-356-320.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-302/

doc Christmas Card to Yuri Domoto from Yuki Kamayatsu (ddr-densho-356-304)

Christmas card to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Yuki Kamayatsu. Inside the card is a message to Yuri about life in Denver and a plan to see each other soon. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-277 and ddr-densho-356-320.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-304/

doc Christmas Card to Yuri Domoto from Enoch and Margaret Dumas (ddr-densho-356-305)

Christmas card to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Margaret Dumas with a message on the back answering some question left from Yuriko's stay at the Dumas's. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-277 and ddr-densho-356-320.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-305/

img Arts and crafts festival (ddr-densho-37-504)

Original WRA caption: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Evacuee residents at the Granada Relocation Center, viewing exhibits at the Arts and Crafts Festival in Terry Hall, March 6th to 8th. This festival was sponsored by the Education Division and the "Pioneer," the center newspaper.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-504/

doc Christmas Card to Yuri Domoto from Ilona Imamura (ddr-densho-356-307)

Christmas card to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Ilona Imamura. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-277 and ddr-densho-356-320.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-307/

doc Letter to Yuri Domoto from Min Yonekura (ddr-densho-356-373)

Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Minoru Yonekura in which Min writes his hope for the new year, how he celebrated Christmas, and possible plans to move to Seattle. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-321 and ddr-densho-356-413.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-373/

doc Christmas Card to Yuri Domoto and Wakako Domoto from Emi (ddr-densho-356-309)

Christmas card to Yuri Domoto and Wakako Domoto from Emi. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-277 and ddr-densho-356-320.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-309/

doc Letter to Yuri Tsukada from Wakako Domoto (ddr-densho-356-275)

Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from her sister Wakako Domoto in which she details issues finding housing in Berkeley due to racism, the politics at her office surrounding the quitting of a supervisor and the hiring of a replacement, and some local gossip from their hometown.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-275/

doc Letter to Yuri Domoto from Yoshito Shibata (ddr-densho-356-233)

Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Yoshito Shibata that includes a menu from Camp Savage's Christmas dinner. In the letter Yoshito writes about his happiness that the Christmas celebrations Yuri described in her last letter were joyful. He also writes about the gifts he mailed her, the gifts soldiers at Camp Savage received, wanting to carbon …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-233/

doc Christmas Card to Yuri Domoto (ddr-densho-356-371)

Christmas card to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-321 and ddr-densho-356-413.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-371/

doc Christmas Card to Yuri Domoto from Mr. & Mrs. James Ota (ddr-densho-356-306)

Christmas card to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Mr. & Mrs. James T. Ota. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-277 and ddr-densho-356-320.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-306/

doc Draft of letter to Yoshito Shibata from Yuri Domoto (ddr-densho-356-250)

Draft of a letter to Yoshito Shibata from Yuri Domoto Tsukada in which she talks about the dusty weather at Amache, the pain of evacuation, her family's joy at hearing from him, and notification of the birth of a nephew.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-250/

doc Easter Service Program (ddr-densho-356-815)

Program for Easter Service at the Granada Christian Church on April 25, 1943.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-356-815/