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A newborn identification bracelet from the Poston camp for Marlene Shigekawa, who was born October 23, 1944.
Akio Nakagawa wore this identification badge while working at Seabrook Farms in New Jersey. The farm, one of the country's largest producers of canned, frozen, and dehydrated vegetables, hired many Japanese camp inmates during and after the war.
Toshi Ito, who was held at the Heart Mountain camp in Wyoming, kept this hand-carved wooden pin depicting traditional Japanese sandals. She wore those geta to walk through the mud at the Santa Anita racetrack temporary detention center.
June Shimizu was a 17-year-old high school student when she was first held in the Topaz camp. Later she was sent to the Tule Lake camp in California, where she participated in art classes and worked as a secretary for a camp music studio. |