Title:

Mrs. George Harada, the former Mary Nakano of the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, and two of her fellow workers are ...

Date:

1944-07-17

Subject:

Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Photographs

Full title:Mrs. George Harada, the former Mary Nakano of the Heart Mountain Relocation Center, and two of her fellow workers are preparing a report in the finance division of the New York City headquarters of the National CIO War Relief Committee, where Mrs. Harada is employed as a secretary. Her husband, Pfc. George Harada, enlisted in November 1941 in Los Angeles and is now in Italy with the 442nd Combat Team. The Haradas were married in December, 1943, at Greeley, Colorado, while Mrs. Harada was attending the Colorado State College of Education. A native of Los Angeles, she is a graduate of Roosevelt High School and also attended the Los Angeles City College prior to evacuation to the Pomona Assembly Center in May, 1942. The following September she went to Heart Mountain where she was a receptionist in the Community Services Division. She shares a three room apartment in Greenwich Village with her sister, Taka, who does art stencils for greeting cards. Their mother, Mrs. Kikuno Nakano, and their sister Helen still reside at Heart Mountain but are planning to resettle soon to New York<lb/> New York, New York.

WRA no. G-682

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Collection:

War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement