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Description
Document presents a list of 52 incarcerees; names are introduced with the text, "May the committee further recommend the release of the following" [presumably from the army stockades]. Nakao, Masaru; Inoue, Tetsuo; Hayashioa, Bob; Tahara, Tom; Saito, Shu; Shingu, Tadashi (Fred); Ogata, Tanji; Fujimoto, Tadao (Wm); Yamamoto, Kazuo; Tanabe, Yaichi; Wada, Shozo; Takaoka, Yoshio; Komiya, Shunichi; Harauchi, Akio; Akiyama, Masao; Morikawa, Shigeto; Ikeda, Kumakichi ; Tarumoto, Sadaichi; Kimura, H.; Kinoshita, Masaru; Kozuma, Ernest; Matsumoto, Mitsuru; Yamanaka, Ryujiro; Kazama, Masami; Yamanaka, Sumitake; Murakami, Tomoichi; Yamanaka, Kunitake; Shimada, Junichi; Hibino, Yusak; Furutani, Shoichi; Oki, Kakuma; Nakahara, Tokushige; Yamamoto, Kazuo; Fujii, Yoshio; Kazama, Masami; Fujimoto, Teiichi; Torii, Takeaki; Fujimoto, Hideo; Nomura, Kanji; Fujihara, Sadao; Shimamura, Hiroichi; Okata, Masanao; Gushiken, Yoshitsune; Masoka, Hiro; Gushiken, Yoshito; Matsumoto, T Suneo; Aoke, Jin (Gene); Obara, Wataru; Kurashige, Kenichi; Tateishi, Segenosuke; Shimokawa, Tadayoshi; Morikawa, Masao. The Willard Schmidt collection, documents some of the administrative duties of Willard Schmidt, the Chief of Internal Security for the War Relocation Authority and the Tule Lake incarceration/segregation camp. This collection contains administrative records and photos documenting the Tule Lake camp, the largest incarceration camp with a peak population of 18,789 and with the most turbulent history. In 1943, the camp was turned into a segregation center to house "disloyal" Japanese Americans relocated from other camps based on their answers to a confusing loyalty questionnaire. The camp endured martial law from November 1943- Jan 1944 after escalating protests and unrest. The hostile environment of the camp lead to many incarcerees renouncing their American citizenship upon the end of incarceration, a process which took 14 years to reverse if they did not wish to be deported to Japan.
World War II--Administration--War Relocation Authority World War II--Incarceration camps--Incarcerees World War II--Incarceration camps--Conflicts, intimidation, and violence World War II--Citizen isolation centers
Place
Newell, California Incarceration Camps--Tule Lake
Source
San Jose State University Department of Special Collections and Archives
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