Title:
Letter from Sophie Toriumi to Olive Hutchison, Secretary to Remsen Bird, September 15, 1942
Creator:
Toriumi, Sophie Tagima
Subject:
Japanese American college students
Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Heart Mountain, Wyo.)
Tule Lake Relocation Center (Newell, Calif.)
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
Description:
Toriumi describes her arrival at the Heart Mountain camp in Wyoming. She details many hardships and frustrations such as
the extreme weather, food shortages, discrimination for jobs, incompetent administrators, and a prejudiced head of education.
She also notes the difficulty in establishing religious activities without facilities.
Publisher:
Los Angeles : Occidental College Library, 2005
Date:
1942-09-15
2005-04-18
Type:
text
Format:
Letter ; typescript
image/jpg
Identifier:
117_kt638nc9ww
scjar01ea117_pg1-pg2
Source:
Occidental College Library
Language:
eng
Relation:
Special Collections. Japanese American Relocation (scjar)
Rights:
Property and literary rights reside with the Occidental College Library. For permission to reproduce or publish, please contact
Special Collections.
Letter from Sophie Toriumi to Olive Hutchison, Secretary to Remsen Bird, September 15, 1942