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vh Peggie Nishimura Bain Interview (ddr-densho-1000-170)

Nisei female. Born March 31, 1909, in Vashon Island, Washington. Raised in Vashon Island and Des Moines, Washington, before being removed with her two children to the Pinedale Assembly Center, California. Later transferred to Tule Lake concentration camp, California, and Minidoka, Idaho, before resettling in Chicago, Illinois. Lived and worked in Chicago before eventually returning to …

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img Mother with children on farm (ddr-densho-2-2)

Patsy, Peggie, and Jimmie Yorita on the Nishimura family farm.

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img Family in front of house (ddr-densho-2-19)

This photograph was taken at the home of the Nakatsu family. From left to right: Peggie Nishimura, unidentified, Joe Nakatsu, and Nellie Nishimura.

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img Family and friends on farm (ddr-densho-2-1)

The Nishimura family and friends on their farm in Seattle, Washington. Left to right: Kumataro Nishimura, Kadju Nishimura, Emily Herold holding Mary Nakashige, Peggie Yorita, Patsy Yorita, Tom Nishimura, Jiro Matsumura, Harry Oki (behind Matsumura), Hanni Nishimura, and Alex Ando.

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img Family and friend at the beach (ddr-densho-2-31)

Left to right: Patsy Yorita, Peggie Yorita, and Emily Nishimura holding Jimmie Yorita at Des Moines beach.

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img Japanese Americans digging for shells (ddr-densho-2-48)

Left to right: Peggie Yorita, Margaret Frost (wife of one of the camp's teachers), Kumataro Nishimura, and his wife, Kadju, dig and sift for shells at the Tule Lake concentration camp. Kumataro made the sieve by hand from scrap lumber and wire from a door screen. The shells were bleached and used for jewelry-making, which was …

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Collection Bain Collection (ddr-densho-2)

The Bain collection, 1920s-1940s, focuses on the daily and recreational activities of the Nishimura and Yorita families, originally from Seattle, Washington. This collection contains several photographs of farming, fishing, and swimming. The majority of the collection focuses on the incarceration of the two families at Minidoka, Idaho, and Tule Lake, California. Many photographs document their jewelry-making …

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Narrator Peggie Nishimura Bain

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vh Peggie Nishimura Bain Interview Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-170-11)

Older sister contracts tuberculosis, wants to go to Idaho

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vh Peggie Nishimura Bain Interview Segment 16 (ddr-densho-1000-170-16)

Staying in Seattle's Fujin Home, a home for women run by the Japanese Baptist Church

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vh Peggie Nishimura Bain Interview Segment 31 (ddr-densho-1000-170-31)

Harsh conditions in assembly center: heat, lines, poor facilities

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vh Peggie Nishimura Bain Interview Segment 27 (ddr-densho-1000-170-27)

Thoughts of war prior to 1941: "I don't think I took war that seriously"

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vh Peggie Nishimura Bain Interview Segment 48 (ddr-densho-1000-170-48)

Facing discrimination and unpleasant conditions while trying to find housing

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vh Peggie Nishimura Bain Interview Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1000-170-7)

Childhood memories: school activities, using cultivator on family farm

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vh Peggie Nishimura Bain Interview Segment 34 (ddr-densho-1000-170-34)

Receiving treatment in an concentration camp hospital

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vh Peggie Nishimura Bain Interview Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-170-10)

Working in a restaurant in Seattle's Nihonmachi, or Japantown

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vh Peggie Nishimura Bain Interview Segment 47 (ddr-densho-1000-170-47)

Leaving camp and moving to Chicago: "I thought, 'This is terrible'"

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vh Peggie Nishimura Bain Interview Segment 30 (ddr-densho-1000-170-30)

The train ride to Pinedale Assembly Center: "we were being treated as enemies"

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vh Peggie Nishimura Bain Interview Segment 49 (ddr-densho-1000-170-49)

Finding housing in Chicago; receiving help from a Jewish man

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vh Peggie Nishimura Bain Interview Segment 46 (ddr-densho-1000-170-46)

Circumstances surrounding losing family property during the war

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vh Peggie Nishimura Bain Interview Segment 22 (ddr-densho-1000-170-22)

Memories of working on family farm as a child

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vh Peggie Nishimura Bain Interview Segment 44 (ddr-densho-1000-170-44)

Discussion of process of coloring photographs

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vh Peggie Nishimura Bain Interview Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-170-6)

Interaction with non-Japanese Americans: schoolmates, church members, neighbors

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vh Peggie Nishimura Bain Interview Segment 45 (ddr-densho-1000-170-45)

Preparing to leave camp, deciding where to go

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vh Peggie Nishimura Bain Interview Segment 38 (ddr-densho-1000-170-38)

Dealing with the questions of military service and leaving camp

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