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doc Roster of incarcerees leaving from Fresno Assembly Center to Jerome, Arkansas (ddr-csujad-55-125)

List of "evacuees" slated for removal from the Fresno Temporary Assembly Center to the Jerome incarceration camp. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0127

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-125/

doc Health Division rules and regulations (ddr-csujad-55-1078)

Rules and regulations for the Health Division at Heart Mountain incarceration camp. Includes information on clinic hours, ambulance, emergencies, immunizations, medication, optometry, house calls, babies, and hospital wards. Includes Japanese text. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1080

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-1078/

doc Janitor foreman-job order #3-F (ddr-csujad-55-632)

Description of the Janitor position at Heart Mountain incarceration camp outlining number of janitors, locations, duties, and hours. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0634

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-632/

doc Employee driver's license, Form WRA-22, Masami Iwasa (ddr-csujad-55-162)

Poston employee driver's license authorizing Masami Iwasa to operate a government owned vehicle as part of employment as a Supply and Transportation Officer with the War Relocation Authority. Form WRA-22. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0164

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-162/

doc Certificate of identification, Form AR-AE-23, Misao Nakano (ddr-csujad-55-177)

Certificate of identification for Misao Nakano including personal data, photograph, registration number, fingerprint, signature, and, "Notice to Holder of this Certificate." Form AR-AE-23. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_0179

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-177/

doc General information bulletin (Cody, Wyo.), series 5 (September 5, 1942) (ddr-csujad-55-641)

General Information Bulletin, Series 5, published at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp, Wyoming, on September 5, 1942. Bulletin including news, events, and topics related to Heart Mountain incarceration camp. Includes: Special Labor Day program set; Community enterprises on cooperative basis; Meeting notices; Internal security information; Church notices; General information; and Tap water now fit to drink. …

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doc General information bulletin (Cody, Wyo.), series 27 (October 17, 1942) (ddr-csujad-55-659)

General information bulletin, series 27, published at the Heart Mountain incarceration camp, Wyoming on October 17, 1942. Bulletin including news, events, and topics related to Heart Mountain incarceration camp. Includes: City planning boar formed; Church services in permanent locale; Religious activities; Week-day activities; Civilians, soldiers visitors here; Issue mackinaw jackets to workers; Payment of sales tax …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-659/

doc Citizen's indefinite leave, Teimei Tim Okimura (ddr-csujad-55-23)

Certificate authorizing Teimei Tim Okimura indefinite leave from the Jerome incarceration camp to Kalamazoo, Michigan. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_00026

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-23/

doc When you leave the relocation center (ddr-csujad-55-792)

Pamphlet on instructions for leaving the "relocation center." Covers: Giving notice of time of arrival; Travelers' aid society; Report of arrival and change of address cards; Travel and change of address for aliens; Relocation assistance payments; Special regulations in Western Defense Command; Relocation officers; War manpower restrictions on job changes; West coast security problems; Shipment of …

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doc Teacher and the War Relocation project (ddr-csujad-55-1735)

Essay on teachers and the War Relocation Project. Covers the history and activities of the War Relocation Authority and Relocation Centers, evacuation ("mass removal"), consumer enterprises, role of schools in the incarceration camps, WRA educational policy, educational program, relation of incarceration camp schools to public school systems, school population and organization, selection of personnel, school program, …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-1735/

Letter from Carl C. Donaugh, United States Attorney, to Edward J. Ennis, Director of the Alien Enemy Control Unit on the proposed rehearing of Keizaburo Koyama (ddr-one-5-209)

doc Letter from Carl C. Donaugh, United States Attorney, to Edward J. Ennis, Director of the Alien Enemy Control Unit on the proposed rehearing of Keizaburo Koyama (ddr-one-5-209)

Photocopy of a declassified letter from Carl C. Donaugh to Edward J. Ennis on the petition from Keizaburo Koyama for a rehearing. Carl writes that the United States Attorney for Los Angeles will soon be conducting rehearings for select internees and that he is forwarding Koyama's case file to them.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-one-5-209/

doc The Pacific Citizen, Vol. 30 No. 6 (February 11, 1950) (ddr-pc-22-6)

Selected article titles: "Two Courses of Action Open to Proponents of Resolution For Issei Naturalization Rights" (p. 1), "Japanese Plan Consulates in United States" (p. 1), "Hawaii Governor Plans Action To Support Issei Citizenship" (p. 1), "Attorney General Recommends Suspension of Deportation in Cases of 50 Japanese Aliens" (p. 3).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-22-6/

doc Pacific Citizen, Vol. 52, No. 8 (February 24, 1961) (ddr-pc-33-8)

Selected article titles: "Japanese Youth in L.A. Held for Use of 'Pills': Jay Inc., Releases November-December Delinquency Report" (p. 1), "Washington Newsletter: United States-Japan Relations" (p. 1), and "Night Before Chuman Appeared at State Assembly Rules Comm. Hearing to Object to Lechner Resolutions, He Was Nervous..." (p. 2).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-pc-33-8/

doc White House, Washington (ddr-csujad-24-87)

A letter from George Bush, President of the United States, apologizing for Japanese American incarceration during World War II. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: chi_07_004

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-24-87/

doc Gila News-Courier Vol. II No. 23 (February 23, 1943) (ddr-densho-141-59)

Selected article titles: "Servicemen Visits Must be Registered" (p. 1), "Aliens 17-38, May Enlist in United States Armed Forces" (p. 1), "Entry Rule Relaxations Encourage Visitations" (p. 1), "Editorial: Wake up Evacuees!!" (p. 2), "New Administration Hall Houses Many Departments" (p. 3), "'Curiosity More Than Prejudice in Resettlement'" (p. 4).

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-141-59/

img Portrait of Japanese boys (ddr-densho-325-191)

The names of each boy was written on the photograph sitting is Imao [illegible] and standing is Sumito Horiuchi. At the top of the picture is a line of Japanese text. Sumito Horiuchi studied in Japan from the ages 4 to 16 then finished high school in the United States.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-325-191/

img Relief map depicting camp location (ddr-densho-37-411)

Original WRA caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Picture of relief map showing location of Manzanar, War Relocation Authority Center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry, in Owens Valley, California, which is flanked in background by the High Sierras and in foreground by Mount Whitney, loftiest peak in the United States.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-37-411/

doc Coram Nobis Exhibit M (ddr-densho-405-15)

Copy of "United States Naval Administration in World War II." This document was Exhibit M in the coram nobis litigation. This document was available in conjunction with "Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American Internment" by Eric K. Yamamoto, Margaret Chon, Carol Izumi, Jerry Kang, and Frank Wu.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-405-15/

vh Rose Ito Tsunekawa Interview (ddr-jamsj-2-13)

Nisei female. Born July 9, 1930, in Salinas, California. Grew up in Salinas, where father ran a successful farm. In 1941, moved with family to Japan. Remained in Japan during World War II and worked as an interpreter. After the war, returned to the United States and presently lives in California.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-jamsj-2-13/

vh Mary Schroeder Interview (ddr-densho-1000-387)

White female. Born December 4, 1940, in Boulder, Colorado. Senior Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. In Gordon Hirabayashi's 1983 coram nobis case, Judge Schroeder authored the opinion which vacated both Hirabayashi's curfew and exclusion convictions on proof of the allegations of governmental misconduct.

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1000-387/

img Location map of WRA projects (ddr-csujad-55-2494)

Partial map of the United States indicating the location of Tule Lake, Minidoka, Heart Mountain, Topaz, and Manzanar incarceration camps. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2600

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-2494/

doc Letter from Tsuna Watanabe to Honorable Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of War, November 30, 1944 (ddr-csujad-55-2002)

Correspondence from Tsuna Watanabe to Henry Stimson regarding loyalty to the United States and requesting release from Topaz incarceration camp. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2105

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-2002/

img Noboru Shirai aboard Tatsuta Maru (ddr-csujad-55-1315)

Black and white photograph depicting Noboro Shirai with other passengers aboard the Tatsuta Maru bound for the United States. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1317

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-1315/

doc Letter from Frank Herron Smith to President Harry S. Truman, May 4, 1945 (ddr-csujad-21-2)

Smith urges Truman to ask "Edgar J. Hoover and his organization" to help control "the arsonists and night-riders who are terrorizing the few Japanese Americans who have returned to the West Coast." Smith states that approximately 60,000 of the "110,000" people who were "evacuated" seek to return to their homes, under pressure from the War Relocation …

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-21-2/

Collection Yoshihara Collection (ddr-densho-332)

Yoshihara collection. Centers around George and Hisano Yoshihara whose son Elmer served in the U.S. Army during the occupation of Japan and was later killed in Korea. Elmer's fiance whom he met in Japan was later brought to the United States. Includes photographs and documents

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-332/

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