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Guide to the Stanley Hayami Diary, 1941-1944
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Title: Stanley Hayami diary,
Date (inclusive): 1941-1944
Origination:
Hayami, Stanley
Extent: 1 diary
Repository:
Japanese American National Museum (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles, California 90012
Abstract: Stanley Hayami was a Japanese American student from Los Angeles who attended high school at the Heart Mountain concentration
camp in Wyoming.
Language:
English.
Collection is not open for research.
All requests for permission to publish, reproduce, or quote from materials in this collection must be submitted to the Hirasaki
National Resource Center at the Japanese American National Museum (collections@janm.org).
[Identification of item], Gift from the Estate of Frank Naoichi and Asano Hayami, parents of Stanley Kunio Hayami, Japanese
American National Museum (95.226.1).
Stanley Hayami (1925-1945) was a student from Los Angeles who attended high school at the Heart Mountain Concentration Camp
in Wyoming. Hayami left Heart Mountain in June 1944 to join the U.S. Army and was killed in combat in Northern Italy on April
23, 1945, while trying to help a fellow soldier. He was nineteen years old.
One 96 page diary. The diary, which Hayami kept from 1941 to 1944, records a spectrum of youthful dreams of becoming an artist-writer
and doubts ranging from the quality of his schoolwork to the meaning of democracy. The diary includes pen and ink drawings
by Hayami.