The Condensor newsletters from Jerome, Arkansas Internment Camp

Collection — Box: JAVC-Small-Collections-Box, Folder: M00055: 1-2 of 2

Identifier: MANUSCRIPT-M00055

Staff Only

Content Description

While in the Jerome, Arkansas internment camp, the Kirita family collected three issues of the camp's high school newsletter, "Condensor."

Vol. III, No. 1 (December 2, 1943)
Vol. III, No. 2 (December 16, 1943)
Vol. III, No. 4 (February 3, 1944)

Dates

Creation: December 1943-February 1944

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Biographical Sketch

Marian Takagi's father, Kamekichi Kirita, owned a store in Kohala on the Big Island, selling goods to plantation workers. He was also appointed a consular agent in 1938. Kamekichi was arrested on the night of Dec. 7, 1941. Like many other individuals of Japanese Ancestry who were arrested that night, he was eventually sent to the mainland where he was transfered from detention center to detention center. The rest of the family (Toka Kirita with her seven children) was eventually sent by boat to California and then on by train to a detention center in Jerome, Arkansas. Finally, over a year later, Kamekichi was also sent to Jerome where he was reunited with his family.

UH Manoa's Unspoken Memories: Oral Histories of Hawaii Internees at Jerome, Arkansas - Patricia Kirita Nomura. http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/handle/10125/33175/unspokenmemories_02_nomura.pdf?sequence=1

Extent

2 Files (1 file folder has originals; 1 file folder has photocopies.)

Language

English

Additional Description

Condition Description

Very acidic and brittle. All of the newsletters were folded in half, which most of them have now broken into two parts along the crease line. Originals have been photocopied and will be scanned.