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An oral history with Lillie Y. McCabe, an incarceree at the Santa Anita Temporary Assembly Center and the Granada (Amache) incarceration camp. This interview was conducted for the Japanese American Oral History Project by California State University, Fullerton. The interview covers the Anglo reverends and ministers who helped her while she was incarcerated at Amache, how they helped and how she met them; she mentions religion, and the religious community; she talks about the daily activities while she at Amache; how Japanese American men joined the US Military; she recalls life after leaving the incarceration camp, finding a place to live, and the amount of material things they had left once the war was over. This oral history was conducted for the Japanese American Oral History Project, Oral History Program, CSU Fullerton. Transcript is found in item: csufccop_jaoh_0032. Photograph is found in item: csufccop_jaoh_0034. The Japanese American Oral History Project features oral histories with narrators who talk about their lives, pre and post World War II, but most specifically, about their experience being incarcerated in camps during World War II.
Geographic communities--California--Los Angeles Geographic communities--Colorado World War II--Incarceration camps World War II--Temporary Assembly Centers Race and racism--Discrimination Reflections on the past World War II--Incarceration camps--Impact of incarceration World War II--Leaving camp--'Resettlement World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation') World War II--Pearl Harbor and aftermath World War II--Temporary Assembly Centers--Living conditions Religion and churches
Place
Los Angeles, California Amache, Colorado Arcadia, California Hollister, California Incarceration Camps--Granada (Amache) Temporary Assembly Centers--Santa Anita
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