PARTNER

Japanese American Museum of Oregon
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COLLECTION ID

ddr-one-5

DESCRIPTION

The collection consists of English and Japanese correspondence written primarily to Dr. Keizaburo "Kei" Koyama while he was detained at Department of Justice detention facilities (Fort Missoula, MT, Fort Sill, OK, Camp Livingston, LA, and Santa Fe Detention Center, NM). The letters were sent by his friends and family in Portland, friends detained at other Department of Justice detention facilities and War Relocation Authority concentration camps, and his family detained at the Portland Assembly Center and Minidoka Relocation Center in Hunt, Idaho. The letters document their feelings about separation, war, and the conditions of the various detention facilities and concentration camps they were incarcerated at.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Correspondences that totals 81 letters, four photographs, various other textual documents, and an Order of the Rising Sun certificate and medal; 0.5 linear feet.

CONTRIBUTOR

Japanese American Museum of Oregon; Portland, Oregon

CREATORS

• Goodenough, Andrew "Uncle Chape" (author)
• Goodenough, Eva "Aunt Eva" (author)
• Kakishi, Koba (author)
• Koyama, Eva (author)
• Koyama, Keizaburo (author)
• Koyama, Miriam Kiyo (author)

PREFERRED CITATION

Courtesy of Dr. Keizaburo Koyama Family Collection, Japanese American Museum of Oregon

RIGHTS

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