Yamashita Family Archives

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Pamphlet defines Assembly Center as "Convenient gathering point within the military area, where evacuees live temporarily while awaiting the opportunity for orderly planned movement to a Relocation Center outside of the military area." Relocation…

WRA Hostel File Page 3-8 rfs.pdf
List of Japanese families that live at Cordonices Village or Cordonices Housing Project, built to house military families during WWII and then converted to house families of UC Berkeley students, many of whom were veterans.…

WRA Hostel File page 29-31 rfs.pdf

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Front of manila file. With post-it notes written by Jane Boltz (in 2015), daughter of John Yamashita.

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Letter from Thomas J. Mahan, acting District Relocation Officer, informing hostel residents that the Relocation Office will be closing in April 1946. The Berkeley and Oakland Community Chests has donated funds to the International Institute of…

WRA Hostel File page 32-41 rfs.pdf

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WRA Hostel File page 25-26.pdf
Corlett writes that anyone who has claims and who had accounts with the Yokohama Specie Bank could present those claims. The Yokohama Specie Bank was taken over by other state entities based on decree and liquidated.

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Memo from Roscoe E. Bell, Assistant Project Director, to Mr. L. T. Hoffman, Project Director, forwarded to Mr. Hirano.

Bell states that John Yamashita will be returning to Oakland to the Methodist Church that hold property for some at Topaz. Bell…

WRA Hostel File page 19-22.pdf

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Thank you letter from the Methodist Hotel to Dr. F. T. Inukai (Dentist) for a gift of cantaloupes that he dropped off at the hostel.
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