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Asai, Marie Namba, 1923-2012

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Marie Namba letter to June Clark about incarceration at Portland Assembly Center

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Identifier: Coll 1072
Abstract Handwritten letter from Marie Namba (later Marie Asai, 1923-2012) to a former teacher, June Clark (later June Burke, 1917-2018). Namba wrote the letter while incarcerated at the Portland Assembly Center, a detention camp that was established by the U.S. government at the site of the Portland International Livestock Exposition in Portland, Oregon, in the spring of 1942. The government detained Japanese American residents of Oregon at the center before transferring them to long-term...
Dates: 1942 May 13