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img [Sharing food] (ddr-csujad-56-242)

Two young men from Camp Amache share barbecued meat as they pose for the camera. Page 28 of Kawase Family Photo Album, Book Two. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: nbea08-03-051

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doc Granada Pioneer Vol. II No. 66 (June 24, 1944) (ddr-densho-147-179)

Selected article titles: "Property Stored in L.A. Temple to be Removed" (p. 1), "Farm Employment Priority Given" (p. 1), "Return of Nisei Irks California" (p. 2), "Draft Trial for 63 Nisei Closes" (p. 2), "To Testify at 14 Amache Boys' Draft Trial" (p. 3), "'Democracy in Action' Cited by Mrs. Macnair" (p. 3), "Wonders About Dust …

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doc Granada Pioneer Vol. II No. 37 (March 11, 1944) (ddr-densho-147-150)

Selected article titles: "Amache Community Council Receives Myer's Reply to 11-Point Petition. Question of Voting Franchise Significant" (p. 1), "Democracy in Action" (p. 2), "Tule Lake Co-op License Right Upheld by Attorney General" (p. 6), "Hawaiians Break Old Japanese Tradition" (p. 6), "Japanese Americans Evacuated from West Coast Areas Finding Jobs East of the Rockies" (p. …

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doc Granada Pioneer Vol. II No. 35 (March 4, 1944) (ddr-densho-147-148)

Selected article titles: "February Indefinites Hit 215, Third Highest Record" (p. 1), "Third Amache Group Bound for Crystal City Internment Camp" (p. 1), "Hysteria Rules Our Reason?" (p. 2), "Nisei in Italian Campaign Crusade to Prove Loyalty" (p. 4), "Japanese Americans May Forsake the Pacific Coast -- 50,000 Plan to Remain East of the Sierras" (p. …

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doc Rocky Shimpo Vol. 11, No. 70 (June 12, 1944) (ddr-densho-148-6)

Selected article titles: "Judge Names Dates for Two Hearings"; "Official Suggests Six-Point Program"; "Soldier's Wife Going West"; "Resettlers Giving Good Impression"; "Action Prophetic of Future Repetition?"; "Drunken Man Attacks Military Policeman"; "Argue Government Case Unjustified"; "Prove Loyalty"; "Honor Newlyweds at Dinner Party"; "Short Wave Set Owners Jailed"; "English Course is Popular at Amache"; "General's Aide Gives …

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vh Marion Michiko Bernardo Interview (ddr-densho-1000-328)

Nisei female. Born July 25, 1930, in Walnut Grove, California. Grew up in Walnut Grove. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, removed with family to the Merced Assembly Center, California, and the Granada (Amache) concentration camp, Colorado. Left camp to attend a boarding school in New York before eventually returning to Walnut Grove. Marion passed away …

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doc Letter from Mom and Dad to Hideo Nakamura, January 6, 1945, English translation (ddr-csujad-55-2374)

Translation from Japanese to English of correspondence from "Mom and Dad" to George Hideo Nakamura regarding life in Amache incarceration camp. For original in Japanese please see sac_jaac_2479. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2480

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vh Kimiko Nakashima Interview (ddr-manz-1-116)

Nisei female. Born November 27, 1919, in Florin, California. Grew up in Florin where parents ran a farm. During World War II, removed to the Fresno Assembly Center, California, the Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas, and the Granada (Amache) concentration camp, Colorado. After leaving camp, lived and worked for a time in Utah before eventually returning to …

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doc Letter to Yuri Domoto from Alice (ddr-densho-356-341)

Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Alice in which Alice writes about her feeling on being away from Amache, and the various reactions she gets from people outside the camp, including Japanese-Americans who fled to the East Coast before mass removal. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-321 and ddr-densho-356-413.

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Narrator Mary Hamano

Nisei female. Born July 14, 1921, in San Gabriel, California. Spent childhood in Los Angeles where father operated a shoe repair business and grocery store. Family was removed to Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and Amache concentration camp, Colorado. Resettled in Denver after the war and worked in several businesses in Japantown. Married in 1947 and …

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Narrator Kay Uno Kaneko

Nisei female. Born October 7, 1932, in Los Angeles, California. Grew up in Los Angeles, age nine when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941. During World War II, removed with family to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Granada (Amache) concentration camp, Colorado. Transferred to the Crystal City internment camp, Texas, so family could …

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Narrator Mas Takano

Nisei male. Born June 15, 1932, in Alameda, California. Grew up in Alameda, where father was a gardener. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, moved to Cortez, California, for a few months before being removed to the Merced Assembly Center, California, and the Amache concentration camp, Colorado. After leaving camp, returned to California. Drafted into the …

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Narrator Toshiko Aiboshi

Nisei female. Born July 8, 1928, in Boyle Heights, California. At an early age, went to live with family friends when father passed away and mother contracted tuburculosis. During World War II, removed to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Granada (Amache) concentration camp, Colorado. While in camp, mother relapsed and Toshiko again went …

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Narrator Esther Takei Nishio

Nisei female. Born February 20, 1925, in Los Angeles, California. Grew up in Venice, California, where father and uncle ran a carnival concession stand. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, removed to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Granada (Amache) concentration camp, Colorado. In 1944, was part of a group organized by the Quakers …

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Narrator Cookie Takeshita

Nisei female. Born April 1, 1929, in Alameda, California. Grew up in Alameda, where father ran a gardening business. During World War II, family was ordered to leave Alameda and moved to Cortez, California, before being sent to the Merced Assembly Center, California, and the Amache concentration camp, Colorado. Left camp to attend school in Cleveland, …

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img [Digging] (ddr-csujad-56-240)

Young Japanese American man with shovel full of sand from the banks of the Arkansas River near Camp Amache. Page 26 of Kawase Family Photo Album, Book Two. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: nbea08-03-049

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img [Picnic by the river] (ddr-csujad-56-235)

Fred, Sadayo, Taneko and other Japanese American incarcerees eat a picnic lunch by the Arkansas River near Camp Amache. Page 21 of Kawase Family Photo Album, Book Two. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: nbea08-03-044

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img [Portrait in plaid] (ddr-csujad-56-241)

Young Japanese American man incarcerated at Camp Amache wearing a plaid button down shirt and pants standing by the Arkansas River. Page 27 of Kawase Family Photo Album, Book Two. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: nbea08-03-050

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doc When American citizens lost their freedom, [newspaper article] (ddr-csujad-56-180)

A newspaper article from the Press Democrat published on September 15, 1977. Interview of ex-incarceree, Murakami. Photos of recently arrived incarcerees and buildings at Camp Amache. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: nbea08-02-047

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img [Group photo by the river] (ddr-csujad-56-232)

Natsuki, Dorothy, a non-incarceree woman, and Chiyoko stand in line in front of the Arkansas River near Camp Amache. Page 18 of Kawase Family Photo Album, Book Two. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: nbea08-03-041

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doc Rocky Shimpo Vol. 12, No. 37 (March 26, 1945) (ddr-densho-148-126)

Selected article titles: "City-Wide Cage Tourney Slated"; "Artist Honored"; "New Mexico Girl Enlists in W.A.C."; "Tea Grown in Colorado"; "Executive Woman Named by JACD"; "General Clark's Wife Visits Amache Center"; "Give Favorable Reports"; "Family House Opened in Cleveland, Ohio"; "Want Ads Today"; "Report Findings of Conference"; "Priest, and Nun's Fates"; "Minorities Asking for Job Chances, State …

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doc Boy Scouts of America membership card for Allan Minoru Hida (ddr-csujad-55-1997)

Card for Allan Minoru Hida's membership in Boy Scouts of America at the Amache incarceration camp. Includes Boy Scout oath, law, personal record, offices and special duties, and envelope. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_2000

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doc Boy Scouts of America membership card for Allan Minoru Hida (ddr-csujad-55-1996)

Card for Allan Minoru Hida's membership in Boy Scouts of America at the Amache incarceration camp. Includes Boy Scout oath, law, personal record, offices and special duties, and envelope. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site: sac_jaac_1999

https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-csujad-55-1996/

doc Letter to Yuri Domoto from Mildred Allen (ddr-densho-356-325)

Letter to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Mildred Allen in which she details the realities of California during the labor shortage caused by the war and forced removal of Japanese Americans and inquires about life in Amache and how she can provide items for Yuriko or others. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-321 and ddr-densho-356-413.

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img Japanese Americans harvesting onions (ddr-densho-37-510)

Original WRA caption: Granada Relocation Center, Amache, Colorado. Evacuee and appointed personnel office workers assisting in the onion harvest on the project farm during the volunteer farm harvest program. During the two week period when practically all project offices and sections went "all out" to help bring in the farm crops, more than eighty acres of …

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