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Title
[Grave sites of 3 Japanese Incarcerees]
Creator
Mochizuki, Yukio: author
Contributing Institution
California State University, Dominguez Hills, Archives and Special Collections
Collection
CSU Japanese American Digitization Project
Rights Information
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Description
This item relates to the situation surrounding the remains of three Japanese internees, whose remains were moved from Lordsburg, New Mexico to Fort Bliss Cemetery once the Lordsburg camp had become inactive. The copies of photographs of three graves depict these three graves in Fort Bliss Cemetery. There are also handwritten notes at the top of page, that explain how the three people died-- Toshio Kobata was killed by a guard, while Yahei Shiota and Ayao Tahara both died of illness.
Collection of notes, articles, correspondence, photographs, and term papers collected by Yukio Mochizuki, a student at CSU Dominguez Hills, while researching Japanese American incarceration and Japanese Peruvian internment during World War II.
Type
text
Format
Notes
1 page, handwritten
application/pdf
Identifier
moc_01_27_002
csudh_moc_0095
http://cdm16855.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16855coll4/id/7444
Language
English
Subject
Community activities--Funerals
World War II--U.S. Army internment camps
World War II--Incarceration camps--Funerals
Place
Fort Bliss, Texas
U.S. Army Internment Camps--Lordsburg
Source
CSU Dominguez Hills Department of Archives and Special Collections;
Relation
California State University Japanese American Digitization Project
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf3b69n5zt/
Mochizuki Collection

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