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Title
Letter from Kimiko [Kodani] to June [Moore], November 16, 1943
Creator
Kodani, Kimiko
Date Created and/or Issued
1943-11-16
2005-05-24
Publication Information
Los Angeles : Occidental College Library, 2005
Contributing Institution
Occidental College Library
Collection
Japanese American Relocation Collection
Rights Information
Property and literary rights reside with the Occidental College Library. For permission to reproduce or publish, please contact Special Collections.
Description
Describing life in Tule Lake Relocation Center, Kodani writes to her friend Moore about her job as a stenographer, the difficulties of living in camp, and the growing misunderstanding between internees and administrators. Kodani also writes that the media has been spreading exaggerated and distorted news against Japanese Americans. She further describes the food scarcity and unfair means by WRA officials to deploy the army against the internees. [Moore attended Occidental College in 1943. She and Kodani were childhood friends in Oxnard, California.]
Type
image
Format
Letter ; typescript
image/jpeg
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt6489r9br
124_kt638nc9ww
scjar01ea124_pg1-pg2
Language
English
Subject
Tule Lake Relocation Center (Newell, Calif.)
Concentration Camps--United States
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Source
Occidental College Library

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