Title:
Masukichi Saiki, 78-year-old Issei who voluntarily evacuated from Hawaii to the Jerome Relocation Center, is a helper in the
kitchen ...
Date:
1944-08
Subject:
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Photographs
Note:
Full title:Masukichi Saiki, 78-year-old Issei who voluntarily evacuated from Hawaii to the Jerome Relocation Center, is a
helper in the kitchen of the Hotel Salisbury on fashionable West 57th Street in New York City. A former sugar plantation worker,
Mr. Saiki is living in New York with his daughter-in-law and his two grandchildren Theodore, 2, and Sanford, 4-1/2. They voluntarily
evacuated from Hilo, Hawaii, to the Jerome Relocation Center in January 1943 in order to join the children's father, Kazuo
Saiki, a merchant seaman now at sea. He was evacuated from a ship in San Francisco harbor in the spring of 1942 to the Santa
Anita Assembly Center. From there he went to the Central Relocation Center. Later he went to the Central Utah Relocation Center
and from there to the Jerome Relocation Center. He left Jerome in order to ship out in September 1943, and in May 1944 the
rest of the Saiki family relocated to New York.<lb/> Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru<lb/> New York, New York.
Local Call Number:
WRA no. I-365
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Masukichi Saiki, 78-year-old Issei who voluntarily evacuated from Hawaii to the Jerome Relocation Center, is a helper in the
kitchen ...