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Thirteen-year-old Harold Hayashi's mother wrote this note to his teacher asking that he be excused from school so he can pack for forced removal and requesting his school records.
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Because of the recent evacua-tion orders, we will have to leave Berkeley on May 1; therefore, I would like to have Harold Hayashi, adv. #205, leave school to help me pack from today.
I would also like to ask for a transfer for Harold so he may enter a school at the camp.
Harold Hayashi's middle school picture, 1940
Anti-Japanese button, around 1942
Japanese immigrant Seisaku Aoyagi, who had lived in Hawai'i 36 years before the war, was issued this alien registration card. |