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At Topaz Hospital, Apr. 6, 1943
Chiura Obata
While Obata was walking from the communal showers back to his barrack one evening, someone struck him with a metal instrument on his forehead over his left eye. He received ten stitches and was hospitalized for nineteen days, which led to the permanent release of the Obata family from the camp for their safety in May 1943. Obata later attributed the attack to the bleak conditions in the incarceration camp: "In this Relocation Center, the general colorless scenery -- the whitish gray of the barracks, no green vegetation growing -- can cause even a person in a splendid state of mind to weaken to rumors, which are constantly present... this abnormal state of life can contribute to such dreadful acts." |