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In “camp,” Dr. Masako Kusayanagi Goto was known affectionately as “Dr. K.” When the war broke out in 1941, Dr. K was in her first …
Read Part 1 >> HOSTILE RECEPTION FOR OUTSIDE FARM WORKERS As at many camps, inmates were encouraged to go out on short term leave during …
The “Central Utah Relocation Center”—more popularly known as Topaz—was located at a dusty site in the Sevier Desert and had one of the most urban …
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With the end of the Nisei generation upon us, their children, the Sansei, are sometimes fortunate enough to inherit a record of the life of …
Read Part 2 >> TOPAZ MUSEUM-DELTA, UTAH After Moab, we drove straight west to Delta where the Topaz Museum is located, although to our disappointment …
Read Part 2 >> Can you tell me about the picture of you and your friend looking at the fire? My friend and I could …
Read Part 1 >> What about the day you left for the assembly center? All I remember was waiting at the train station on one …
“Army trucks would pull up and someone would shout down, ‘How many in your family?’ And they would just throw the toilet paper and you …
“It feels right,” says Jane Beckwith, director of the Topaz Museum in Utah. “It feels like the painting is coming home.” She is talking about …
Read Part 1 >> Bob, can I go back? Do you remember your experience going from Watsonville to the assembly center? And then from the …
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