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Title
Letter from Yasusuke Ogawa to Hiroji Hosaka, September 17, 1942
Creator
Ogawa, Yasusuke: author
Date Created and/or Issued
1942-09-17
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
Permission to publish the image must be obtained from the CSUDH Archives as owner of the physical item and copyright. In instances when the copyright ownership is not clear it is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain copyright permission.
Description
A letter from Yasusuke Ogawa to Hiroji Hosaka who had been transferred to the Heart Mountain camp. Yasusuke had been incarcerated in the Santa Anita Assembly Center and scheduled to be transferred to the Granada camp in Coronado on September 19. He wrote that the incarcerees had been being transferred to the Granada camp, Jerome camp, and Rohwer camp every other day. He learned Hiroji's wife, Takino's passing and offered his condolences to Hiroji.
Hiroji Hosaka Family Letters consists of correspondence between Hiroji Hosaka and his family and friends while he was imprisoned in the Santa Fe Detention Station, the Santa Anita Assembly Center, and the Heart Mountain incarceration camp during World War II. Also included are prewar photographs of the Daiichi Rafu Gakuen, that is, a Japanese language school in Los Angeles, and Japanese archery, a photograph of the Heart Mountain camp, and his business cards prior to the war.
Type
text
Format
Correspondence
2 pages, 8 x 10.5 inches, handwritten; 1 envelope
application/pdf
Identifier
hos_01_20_001
csudh_hos_0023
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/52612
Language
Japanese
Subject
World War II--Incarceration camps--The journey
World War II--Temporary Assembly Centers--Funerals
Identity and values--Issei
Place
Arcadia, California
Temporary Assembly Centers--Santa Anita
Incarceration Camps--Granada (Amache)
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections;
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8t441dn/
Hiroji Hosaka Family Letters

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