Hall 3 - Daily Life in Camp

"Well, here we are," he said at last. "Your room is in the center of the barrack. The center rooms are for smaller families, the end rooms for couples and the ones in between are for big families."

 

 

"The enormous room was filled with wooden picnic tables, but with five thousand people milling about, it was hard to find a vacant table. At last they found one they could share with an old man and a young family with two crying babies. when they sat down, however, Yuki no longer felt like eating."

 

"Most classes were doubled up in barracks that were meant to be mess halls, the high school met in the grandstand by the parimutuel windows, supplies were short, and Nisei teachers were still being recruited from among the evacuees. In spite of all that, Yuki was glad to be back in school, for she was getting bored drifting about aimlessly all day. She liked her young Nisei teacher and, after a while, got used to the strangeness of being in a school where all the pupils were Japanese."

Page Researchers: Patrick and Jetson; Page Illustrator: Wilson

Related Sites:

Photographs Page - http://www.kent.wednet.edu/KSD/SJ/Nikkei/PhotographsPage.html
Camp Harmony Exhibit - http://weber.u.washington.edu/~mudrock/ALLEN/Exhibit/index.html

 Main Entry Hall

Hall 1: Executive Order 9066

Hall 2: The Journey to Topaz

Hall 4: Japanese American Soldiers

 Hall 5: An Interview with Ms. Tsukamoto

Hall 6: Our Memorial

 Hall 7: Meet the Author

 Hall 8: Teacher Notes

 Coming Soon! The Journey Home

 Hall 9: An Apology

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