Contact California State University, Sacramento, Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Description
Card with four-page handwritten letter describing Tsukamoto's shock and anger at the bombing of Pearl Harbor, her desire to help to protect America, her bewilderment at being removed to Jerome, and the experience of disillusionment felt by thousands that their "war-time occupation" was "to be just sitting and wasting time away." See also "Letter from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mr. [?] and Mrs. [Mary] Tsukamoto, January 9, 1945," included in this collection. The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications.
Type
text
Format
Correspondence; Holiday cards 6 pages, handwritten; color illustrations; 4.5 x 5 in. application/pdf
World War II--Incarceration camps World War II--Mass removal ('Evacuation') World War II--Incarceration camps--Living conditions World War II--Incarceration camps--Impact of incarceration World War II--Incarceration camps--Incarcerees World War II--Pearl Harbor and aftermath--Personal recollections
Source
California State University, Sacramento, Department of Special Collections and University Archives
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