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Bess K. Chin
Born in Alameda, California, interned at Heart Mountain, Wyoming, worked as a teacher’s assistant in the camps |
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Janet Daijogo
Born in San Francisco, interned at Topaz at age five, teaches kindergarten in Corte Madera, California |
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Fumi Hayashi
Deported from Berkeley, California and interned as a high school student at the Topaz relocation camp in 1942 |
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Chizu Iiyama NEW
Raised in Chinatown, transfered to Santa Anita for six months living in a horse stall afterwhich she was sent to Topaz |
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Ernie Iiyama COMING SOON
Born in Oakland, CA in 1912, sent to Topaz where he was an active leader in the Nisei Young Democrats |
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Marvin Uratsu
Born in Sacramento but raised in Japan - sent to Tule Lake and later returned to Japan with the U.S. MIS |
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Paul Ohtaki NEW now fully transcribed
Born on Bainbridge Island, Washington, sent to Manzanar in California, among the first families in the country to be interned |
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Hiroshi Kashiwagi
Held in Tule Lake as a so-called "no-no boy" resister of the loyalty oath, now an author and member of the Screen Actors' Guildo |
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Masaru Kawaguchi
High school basketball player forced to leave his school, team, and home for Topaz, Utah where he was interned for two years |
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Rose Nieda
Uprooted from her home in Washington at age nineteen, sent to Pinedale Assembly Center and then on to Tule Lake internment camp |
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Sato Hashizume NEW
Born in Portland, Oregon, send to Minodoka internment camp in Idaho as a 10 year old. |
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Marielle Tsukamoto COMING SOON
Sacramento native born in 1937, she was sent to an internment camp in Jermone, Arkansas in May, 1942 |
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