Couple standing on steps of barracks
PARTNER
Alameda Japanese American History Project
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OBJECT ID
ddr-ajah-6-53 (1945_Towata-Hyakutaro-and-Yoshi-in-Heart-Mountain)
PARENT COLLECTION
Alameda Japanese American History Project: Family and Community Collection
DESCRIPTION
Caption below photo: Hyakutaro Towata and his wife, Yoshi, visit the Heart Mountain incarceration camp in 1945. In December of 1941, the FBI removed Hyakutaro from his home in Alameda. For months his family had no idea that he had been taken to a special prison camp in Bismarck, North Dakota. After eight months, Hyakutaro was finally allowed to rejoin his family at the Tanforan Assembly Center in San Bruno, CA.
DATE
c. 1945
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OBJECT GENRE
Photographs
OBJECT FORMAT
Still Image
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CONTRIBUTOR
Alameda Japanese American History Project
PREFERRED CITATION
Courtesy of Alameda Japanese American History Project, Densho
RIGHTS
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
