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975 items
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Wesley K. Watanabe Interview (ddr-densho-1000-166)
Ni-ten-gosei (Nisei/Sansei) male. Born May 20, 1935, in Tacoma, Washington. Spent early childhood in Kent, Washington, and was removed with family to the Pinedale Assembly Center at age seven. Family was incarcerated at Tule Lake concentration camp, California, and then moved to Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Resettled and attended grade school and high school in Chicago, …
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Edward K. Honda Interview (ddr-densho-1000-244)
Sansei male. Born July 7, 1945, in the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Parents were from Hawaii, but father was picked up by the FBI following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and mother went to rejoin him on the mainland. After leaving camp, lived briefly in New York City before returning to Hawaii, where parents separated. …
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Senior edition (ddr-csujad-55-1932)
Yearbook for Tri-State High School at Tule Lake incarceration camp. Includes dedication, forward, list of staff, honorary cabinet members, messages from the school principal and class president, hall of fame, class will, calendar of events, class prophecy, and page for signatures. Includes illustrations. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: …
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Sentinel supplement, series 124 (September 16, 1943) (ddr-csujad-55-1090)
News bulletin for incarcerees covering announcements, events, programs, policies, recreational activities, and jobs at Heart Mountain incarceration camp. Current issue includes information on job offers, disposal of hot ashes, transportation of "segregees" to Tule Lake, work at bean and seed mills, and girl scouts. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project …
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Tri-State High School handbook (ddr-csujad-55-1948)
Handbook for Tri-State High School at Tule Lake incarceration camp. Includes sections on administration, history of Tri-State high school, faculty and assistants, general regulations, student government, class officers, calendar of events, campus, graduation requirements, subjects, clubs, publications, and sports. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1951
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Mary T. Yoshida Interview (ddr-densho-1014-9)
Nisei female. Born 1923 in Central Point, Oregon. While in elementary school, sent to live with a foster family in Medford, Oregon. Was attending college when World War II broke out, and was removed to the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Left camp to work in St. Paul, Minnesota, as a housegirl. Finished college at Texas …
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Toshio Oku photo album (ddr-csujad-3-22)
Photo album is a collection of landscape and panoramic photos of Tule Lake incarceration camp, holiday greeting cards, photos of a fire, graduation portrait of Toshio Oku, group photo of the Electrical Department, and inside the print shop of the Newell Star. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: tos_01_001_023
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Newell Star printers (ddr-csujad-3-20)
Group photograph, including Toshio Oku, of the publication printers in the print shop of the Newell Star weekly newspaper printed for the Tule Lake segregation camp. The group has printed stacks of Vol. III, no. 2 of the Newell Star next to them. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: …
Narrator Sumie Suguro Akizuki
Nisei female. Born January 2, 1929, in Bellevue, Washington. Grew up in Bellevue before being removed to the Pinedale Assembly Center and Tule Lake concentration camp, California, during World War II. After leaving camp, returned to Bellevue.
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Letter from residents of Block 9 to Raymond Best, Director of Tule Lake Camp and Colonel Verne Austin, Commander of Military Police, February 14, 1944 (ddr-csujad-2-7)
Letter from residents of Block 9 to Raymond Best, Director of Tule Lake Camp and Colonel Verne Austin, Commander of Military Police requesting the release of four incarerees detained in the army stockades at Tule Lake Camp: Dentaro Tani, Heizaburo Nakada, Goichi Ishimaru, and Toshiaki Oku. Signed names: Tani, Dentaro; Nakada, Heizaburo; Ishimaru, Goichi; Oku, Toshiaki; …
Narrator Emi Yamamoto
Nisei female. Born October 3, 1919, in Fresno, California. Grew up in Watsonville, California, helping on family's strawberry farm. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, was removed to the Salinas Assembly Center and the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. After World War II, returned to Watsonville.
Narrator Toshiko Sakata
Nisei female. Born April 29, 1925, in Clarksburg, California. Grew up in the communities of Clarksburg and Courtland before the war. During World War II, removed to the Marysville Assembly Center and Tule Lake concentration camp, California. After leaving camp, returned to the Clarksburg area.
Narrator Heidi Sakazaki
Nisei female. Born March 28, 1928, in Clarksburg, California. Grew up in the Sacramento area prewar. During World War II, was removed with family to the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. After leaving camp, worked in Utah and Los Angeles before eventually returning to Sacramento.
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Nisei men and women standing outside the school offices building (ddr-csujad-44-52)
A photograph of two Nisei men and two Nisei women incarcerated at Tule Lake, California. They are standing outside a building and looking at each other as if in conversation. They are standing near the wooden posts that are supporting the building's overhanging roof. The door to the building is behind them. Above them is a …
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Soph (ddr-csujad-44-27)
A large group photograph of young Nisei men and women incarcerated at Tule Lake, California, with their teacher. They are high school sophomores. The group is posing in three rows outside a barrack. The people in the back two rows are standing. The front row is seated in chairs. Photo inscription on back: "Soph." Title taken …
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Basketball team members (ddr-csujad-44-8)
A large group photograph of young Nisei men and women incarcerated at Tule Lake, California. They are presumably basketball team members. They are standing in two rows in front of a basketball goal. The men are in the back row, and the women are in the front row. A water tower can be seen in the …
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Soph Club (ddr-csujad-44-25)
A group photograph of Nisei men and women incarcerated at Tule Lake, California. They are sophomores at high school with their teacher. The group of eleven people is posing in two rows outside a barrack. The men and women in the back row are standing. The women in the front row are seated in chairs. Photo …
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Frosh (ddr-csujad-44-22)
A large group photograph of young Nisei men and women incarcerated at Tule Lake, California, with a teacher. They are high school frosh students. The group is posing in three rows outside a barrack. The people in the back two rows are standing. The front row is seated in chairs. Photo inscription on back: "Frosh." Title …
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Frosh (ddr-csujad-44-26)
A large group photograph of young Nisei men and young women, who are frosh students, incarcerated at Tule Lake, California. The group of people is posing in three rows outside a barrack. The men and women in the back two rows are standing. The women in the front row are seated in chairs. Photo inscription on …
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Nisei women's basketball team (ddr-csujad-44-17)
A group photograph of twelve young Nisei women posing in front of a barrack at Tule Lake, California. They are presumably basketball team members. They are in two rows of six. The women in the back row are standing and the women in the front are sitting on a bench. A woman in the front row …
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Nisei men outside (ddr-csujad-44-47)
A photograph of two young Nisei men incarcerated at Tule Lake, California. They are outside. One young man is standing, and the other young man is crouching on the ground next to him. They are looking at something out of the frame. Rows of barracks are in the background behind the men. Photo inscription on back: …
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Diana Morita Cole Interview (ddr-densho-1000-483)
Nisei female. Born May 26, 1944, in the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Prior to World War II, parents lived in Hood River, Oregon. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, they were removed to the Pinedale Assembly Center, California, and the Tule Lake concentration camp, California, before transferring to Minidoka. After leaving camp, the family resettled in …
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Chizuko Norton Interview (ddr-densho-1000-73)
Nisei female. Born July 3, 1924, in Seattle, Washington. Spent prewar childhood in Japan; Bellevue, Washington; and Kirkland, Washington. Incarcerated at Pinedale Assembly Center, California, and Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Returned to Seattle after the war, obtained master's degree from the University of Washington in the field of social work. Founded Seattle's first alternative school …
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Tokio Hirotaka - Toshio Ito - Joe Matsuzawa Interview (ddr-densho-1000-23)
Mr. Hirotaka was born in 1910, Mr. Matsuzawa was born in 1913, and Mr. Ito in 1922. All three are Nisei males, born and raised in Bellevue, Washington. They and their families were incarcerated at the Pinedale Assembly Center, California, and Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Prior to the war, their families were part of a …
Narrator Hiroshi Kashiwagi
Nisei male. Born November 8, 1922, in Sacramento, California. Spent childhood and adolescence in Loomis, California, before spending senior year in high school in Los Angeles, California. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, removed to Marysville Assembly Center, California, and then to Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Resisted the draft and renounced U.S. citizenship, remaining with …