Tule Lake monograph
PARTNER
CSU Japanese American History Digitization Project
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OBJECT ID
ddr-csujad-26-1 (CSUJAD Local ID: mei_01_01-32, CSUJAD Project ID: ucsb_mei_0001)
PARENT COLLECTION
UC Santa Barbara Robert Billigmeier Collection
DESCRIPTION
Unpublished manuscript includes a collection of diary entries, letters, and essays written by school students incarcerated at the Tule Lake camp and collected through the Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study (JERS). The writings include first-person descriptions of travel to the Tule Lake camp, adapting to camp, limitations of camp, day-to-day camp life, family life, community life, social institutions, recreation, education, terrain, weather conditions, and housing. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: mei_01_01-32
DATE
1976
LOCATION
OBJECT GENRE
Manuscripts
OBJECT FORMAT
Document
TOPICS
- World War II -- Concentration camps
- World War II -- Mass removal ("evacuation")
- World War II -- Concentration camps -- Social and recreational activities
- World War II -- Temporary Assembly Centers -- Social relations
- World War II -- Concentration camps -- Living conditions
- World War II -- Concentration camps -- Education
- World War II -- Concentration camps -- Facilities, services, and camp administration
- Community activities -- Recreational activities
- Community activities -- Sports
- Education
- Identity and values -- Nisei
- Identity and values -- Family
- Identity and values -- Youth
- World War II -- Concentration camps -- Work and jobs
- World War II -- Concentration camps -- The journey
- World War II -- Concentration camps -- Impact of incarceration
- Arts and literature -- Literary arts -- Essays
- Identity and values -- Women
FACILITY
CREATORS
- Billigmeier, Robert Henry (author)
PERSONS/ORGANIZATIONS
CONTRIBUTOR
Department of Special Research Collections, UC Santa Barbara Library
PREFERRED CITATION
[Title of item], Robert Billigmeier Collection, CEMA 60, Department of Special Collections, University Library, University of California, Santa Barbara
RIGHTS
Copyright restricted
