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Use this resource to explore one Japanese American family’s experience of incarceration during World War II. Utilizing artifacts donated to JANM by the Gihachi Yamashita family, this resource includes an Issei’s reflections while separated from his family along with correspondence between him and his wife and daughters as they reached out to each other through months and years of fear and anxiety.

 

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