Title:
Some of the members and guests of the temporary organizing committee of the Greater New York Citizens' Committee for Japanese
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Date:
1945-11-16
Subject:
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Photographs
Note:
Full title:Some of the members and guests of the temporary organizing committee of the Greater New York Citizens' Committee
for Japanese Americans are shown at dinner preceding the Committee's organization meeting on November 16, 1945. Seated are
(left to right): Miss Ruth Green, relocation officer, WRA; Donald Stephens, Japanese American Citizens League; I. B. Sekine,
Issei businessman; Philip E. Hoffman, attorney; Rev. Toru Matsumoto, director for resettlement, Home Missions Council of North
America; Peter S. Aoki, eastern representative, Japanese American Citizens League; Jules Seitz, relocation officer in charge,
New York City District Office; WRA, Mrs. Edith Terry Bremer, executive director, American Federation of International Institutes;
Robert M. Benjamin, attorney and temporary chairman of the Committee; Dillon S. Myer, director, WRA; George Yamaoka, attorney;
Robert Dolins, relocation supervisor, East Coast Area, WRA; Kenji Nogaki (Seattle and Tule Lake), chairman, Resettlement Council
of Japanese American Organizations in New York City; Mrs. Marian Wynn Perry, secretary, New York Chapter, National Lawyers'
Guild; Joe Oyama (Los Angeles and Jerome) president, Japanese American News Corporation; Misao Tajitsu, Issei (Seattle and
Minidoka). Standing are Stanley Okada, executive director, Buddhist Church of New York, and Hyman Sandow, reports officer,
East Coast Area, WRA.<lb/> New York, New York.
Local Call Number:
WRA no. G-1000
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Some of the members and guests of the temporary organizing committee of the Greater New York Citizens' Committee for Japanese
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