Caption below photo: Shuzo "Bill" Takeda with first born child, Judy. Block 13, Topaz, Utah, 1943. Bill married Fumiko "Nellie" Itahara from Alameda, CA.

Caption below photo: Standing in front of their Block 13 residence are Shuzo "Bill" and Fumiko "Nellie" Takeda with their first born child, Judy. Topaz, Utah, 1943. The Taketa's were from Alameda, CA.

Photo of Bill and Nellie Takeda's children on Easter with story of the family's return to Alameda after incarceration

Caption below photo: When Ken, Judy and Jo Takeda returned from their World War II incarceration camp in 1945, their family did not have a place to live in their hometown of Alameda, CA. so they stayed at their church, the Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church on Buena Vista Ave. Several Japanese families shared the space. The …

Sansei female. Born December 27, 1942, in the Topaz concentration camp, Utah. Prior to World War II, parents lived and worked in Alameda, California. During World War II, the family was sent to the Tanforan Assembly Center, California, and the Topaz concentration camp, Utah. After the war, the family returned to Alameda, where Judy grew up. …