#minidoka

[theredandwhitequeen]

Book 8 of the 50 book challenge. Love in the Library by Maggie Tokuda Hall. The author wrote a children’s book about how her grandparents met and fell in love in Minidoka camp during wwii. It’s very short but illustrations are very good. I highly recommend it.

[wearejapanese]

A small group of Alaska Natives were held at Minidoka Incarceration Camp and other sites during World War II - some due to their mixed Japanese ancestry and others due to their familial ties to Japanese individuals. Segregated from the larger community, Alaska Natives and their families experienced the war quite differently than the dominant Japanese/Japanese Americans. Join us as Sho interviews Paulette Moreno and Rhonda Ozawa about their family's experience and to learn more about this crucial perspective that helps us to rethink the incarceration experience and build solidarity across Indigenous/settler community lines.

[thegoforbrokespirit-blog]

Tosh Yasutake was a Pre-Med freshman at the University of Washington when Pearl Harbor was attacked. His father “Jack” Kaichiro Yasutake was an interpreter who worked for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service for the past twenty years. Despite his loyal service, the FBI immediately arrested him. When Executive Order 9066 (Feb. 19, 1942) established the west coast states as a military security zone, the rest of the Yasutake family were incarcerated in the Puyallup Assembly Center in Washington and then transferred to the War Relocation Authority camp known as Minidoka in Idaho When military recruiters came to Minidoka, Tosh was reluctant to join the 442nd Regimental Combat Team because it was a segregated Japanese American unit, but in the hopes that joining the army would make it possible for his father to be reunited with the family he volunteered. This decision shocked his mother, but she understood his reasoning. Tosh went to Camp Shelby, Mississippi to join the 442nd for basic training and was assigned to the Medical Company, where he became a medic. "My first time on the battlefield was almost like a dream.” Tosh continued, “Then you realize the horror of it when people start getting wounded and they start yelling, ‘Medic!’” The noise of firearms and impact of artillery explosions showered dirt and shrapnel could be heard and felt vividly, but that all faded into the background as he responded to the calls for aid. Tosh focused on assessing the wounds and tried to stop the bleeding. It was only afterwards while sitting in a foxhole that he started to shake as he recalled the intensity of the experience.

William Toshio "Tosh" Yasutake Medical Company, 442nd Regimental Combat Team, US Army

Photographed for The Go For Broke Spirit by Shane Sato

[eopederson2]

Self portrait, Minidoka Concentration Camp memorial, Idaho, 2024.

[frasohei]

Visiting the Minidoka concentration camp put a real sour taste in my mouth. And the more we learned, the worse the story got. Anyone interested in Idaho history/WW2/history of the west should make the trip. (at Minidoka National Historic Site) https://www.instagram.com/p/B1FWbYsHYBi/?igshid=ih0te7bujqwn

[asiana-aphrodite]

So guys, I just spent the morning at Minidoka, one of the historical Japanese internment camps. I need to say just how many people got up to speak during the presentation about how what is happening in America right now is exactly what happened to them. These survivors stood up and spoke to a crowd, after years of silence, about how the things happeneing at our southern borders are a repeat of history right here in America. They recognize the tactics, racism, and propaganda used. They know better than anyone what this kind of discrimination and imprisonment feels and looks like, and they’re seeing it again now with Mexican migrants. We have to learn from them. We have to listen to them and help these migrants while we still can.

[thegoforbrokespirit-blog]

I was very fortunate to be asked to share about "The Go For Broke Spirit” book to the Minidoka Pilgrimage. It was my first time to visit Twin Falls as well as Idaho, and we were welcomed by a terrific picnic dinner! Special thanks to Erin (@purplegatedesign), Ryan, Steve, Hanako, and Gloria who along with many other volunteers pulled off a great 4 days! I was part of the first series of lectures and I hope people enjoyed my experience making the book and working with the vets. There were quite a few of the vets from Seattle from the book who spent time here at Minidoka. 

[camarowrx]

The root cellar for block 22 #minidoka #nps #findyourpark #roadtrip (at Minidoka National Historic Site)