Education

Schools were quickly organized in the concentration camps, but they suffered from crude facilities and lack of teaching materials. Instruction was given for nursery through high school, and adult education was offered. Trained teachers were in short supply, however, and uncertified Japanese Americans with college degrees often filled in. The War Relocation Authority (WRA) deliberately emphasized Americanization in the education program. Some found it painfully ironic to watch incarcerated youth recite the Pledge of Allegiance.

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doc Report card Spring Semester 1945 (ddr-densho-484-36)

For Ruby Sato

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-484-36/

doc Report Card for Tanforan High School, Summer 1942 (ddr-densho-484-4)

For Ruby Sato

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-484-4/

doc The Ram-bler Vol. 2 No. (ddr-densho-484-21)

Topaz High school newspaper

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-484-21/

doc The Ram-bler Vol. 4 No. 1 (February 15, 1945) (ddr-densho-484-23)

Topaz High school newspaper

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-484-23/

doc Student card for Topaz High School (ddr-densho-484-41)

for Ruby Sato

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-484-41/

doc Report Card from Topaz City High School 1942-1943 (ddr-densho-484-3)

For Ruby Frances Sato

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-484-3/

doc Invitation to dinner and award ceremony for Nursing certificates (ddr-densho-484-7)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-484-7/

doc Report Card for Ruby Sato, Second Semester 1944, Topaz High School (ddr-densho-484-15)

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-484-15/

doc Memo from War Relocation Authority about vacation time accrued (ddr-densho-410-589)

For work done in adult education classes by Tomoye Takahashi at Topaz

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-589/

doc Notification of job assignment for Tomoye Takahashi (ddr-densho-410-599)

Assigned to position as assistant teacher in adult education

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-410-599/

img School class at Topaz (ddr-ajah-6-95)

Caption below photo: School class at Topaz, Utah incarceration camp, 1942-1945. Kazumaro was from Alameda, CA. Kazumaro Motoyoshi standing third from left at back

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-95/

img School class at Jerome Camp (ddr-ajah-6-212)

Caption below photo: Youth class, Jerome Incarceration camp, Arkansas, circa 1942-1944

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-6-212/

img Class photo of nursery school at Minidoka (ddr-densho-543-7)

Written on back: August 1943 Nursery school in Hunt Idaho. Teachers Miss Takahashi / Miss Ota / Miss Tanaka / Mrs. Hanamura / Eddie Masaru Hirota, Norma Kayoko Hirota. Dickie Yoshihiro Hirota

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-543-7/

img Class photo at Minidoka (ddr-densho-543-8)

Written on back: "Story Hour" at Hunt Idaho / Norma Kayoko Hirota 5 years old / April 1945

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-543-8/

img Class photo of nursery school at Minidoka (ddr-densho-543-9)

Dickie, Eddie and Norma identified on photo front. Written on back: Nursery school in Hunt Idaho. Eddie Masaru Hirota 5 years / Norma Kayoko Hirota 4 / Dickie Yoshihiro Hirota 3 / Teachers (from left) Miss Takahashi / Miss Ota / Miss Tanaka / Mrs. Hanamura / August 1943

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-543-9/

doc Letter from Ruth Yamada to Matsuye Koike, July 12, 1943 and an Independence Program (ddr-densho-432-16)

This letter discusses life at Rohwer concentration camp. Matsuye Koike received the letter while imprisoned at Fort Missoula, MT. The letter was "detained alien enemy mail examined."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-432-16/

doc Letter from Ruth Yamada to Matsuye Koike, October 23, 1942 (ddr-densho-432-7)

This letter discusses life at Rohwer concentration camp, including discussion of the food, environment, church, and school. Matsuye Koike received the letter while imprisoned at Fort Lincoln, Bismark, ND. The letter was "detained alien enemy mail examined."

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-432-7/

img Class photo outside barracks (ddr-ajah-2-925)

Caption below photo: Mrs. Jones 5th grade class at Heart Mountain, Wyoming, circa 1943-1944

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-2-925/

img Woman looking out of barracks window (ddr-ajah-2-909)

Caption below photo: Mrs. Jones, 5th grade instructor, Heart Mountain, Wyoming circa 1943-1944

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-2-909/

img Woman standing at entrance to barracks (ddr-ajah-2-921)

Caption below photo: Mrs. Nishimoto, singing instructor Heart Mountain, Wyoming circa 1943-1944

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-2-921/

img Children outside barracks schoolroom in snow (ddr-ajah-2-912)

Caption below photo: Tetsuko Morita, standing on the stairs, just outside of her schoolroom at Heart Mountain, Wyoming.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-2-912/

img Class photo of 5th Grade Class at Heart Mountain (ddr-ajah-2-887)

Caption on photo: Mrs. Jones 5th Grade Class Heart Mountain, Wyoming, circa 1942-1945

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-2-887/

doc Cover and page of composition book in Japanese with translations (ddr-ajah-2-890)

With lists of members of the Japanese Language Teachers' Federation

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-ajah-2-890/

av Home Movie: 010114: Jerome, Arkansas Relocation Center (ddr-densho-1024-23)

Home movie shot at the Jerome (Arkansas) Relocation Center, ca. June 1944. Jerome was the last concentration camp for Japanese Americans to open and the first to close; upon its closing, detainees were transported to nearby Rohwer and camps in other states. This Kodachrome film was shot by an unknown cameraperson and found on eBay. Includes …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1024-23/

img Seiko Ishida and her Third Grade Class (ddr-csujad-29-9)

Seiko Ishida and her 3rd grade class listening to the librarian Miss Matsuoka. Oral history transcript and audio are found in items: csufccop_jaoh_0010 and csufccop_jaoh_0016. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: 1339_P02

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-29-9/