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Tule Lake Relocation Center

 Organization

Historical Note

The Tule Lake Relocation Center was one of ten American concentration camps to which Japanese and Japanese Americans were forcibly removed and incarcerated during World War II.

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Tule Lake incarceration center employee handbook and map

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 944
Abstract

An employee handbook for the Tule Lake incarceration center and a map of the center. Tule Lake was a facility in northern California where the U.S. government incarcerated Japanese Americans during World War II.

Dates: 1944 September; circa 1944

Tule Lake Pilgrimage, August 26-28, 1994: A Report Prepared for the Background Informations on the Tule Lake Center

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 909
Abstract

Report by Berkeley, California, architect Takasumi Kojima, written in preparation for a pilgrimage to Tule Lake in memory of the incarceration of Japanese Americans. The report provides background information about the Tule Lake incarceration center specifically, as well as about government incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II in general.

Dates: 1994

Oral history interview with Tatsuro Yada

 Collection
Identifier: SR960
Abstract

Oral history interview with Tatsuro Yada conducted by Taka Mizote on March 8, 1992, as part of the Japanese American Oral History Project. Yada was born in Portland, Oregon, and grew up in Salem. After graduating from Willamette University, he took over the family farm. During World War II, he and his family were incarcerated by the U.S. government at the Tule Lake Relocation Center in California. After their release, he returned to farming.

Dates: 1992 March 8

Jerry Jiro Yasutome photographs

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 762
Abstract

Photographs depicting the Tule Lake Relocation Center, the 1948 Vanport Flood, and students from the Northwest School of Photography. The photographs were taken and collected by Jerry Jiro Yasutome between 1945 and 1948.

Dates: 1945-1948

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Japanese Americans 3
Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 3
World War, 1939-1945 -- Concentration camps -- United States 3
World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans 3
Oregon 2