In 1942, more than 120,000 Japanese Americans were removed from their homes along the West Coast of the United States after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. They were incarcerated in concentration camps in remote areas until 1945. One of those camps was in Topaz, Utah. Volunteers from the Friends of the Topaz Museum have gathered these stories of Topaz survivors, told by the survivors themselves or their descendants.

The Stories Page One

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Jon Yatabe in Topaz
Toy Story
by Jon Yatabe
Yuriko Lillian Miyachi Kitano
Adopted by Quakers
by Kerrily Kitano
Norm and brother Pat in Topaz
Every Little Moment
by Norman Hayashi
Ide Osako Yaki
What is an American?
by Gail Hoshiyama Nanbu
Yoshimotos wedding photo
Galvanized Buckets
by Carol Yoshimoto
James Hirano and son Dan in Topaz
Father and Son
by Dan Hirano
San Francisco Chronicle headline "WAR!"
December 7
by Grace Mori Saito Tom
Roy Iwata, about four years old, with wide-legged stance and hands on hips
Pride
by Roy Iwata
Yae with her mother and sisters, Berkeley, circa 1939
A Family Divided
by Yae Kami Yedlosky
Instruction to all persons of Japanese ancestry (poster)
Left Behind
by Ruth Sasaki
The Iwata family in their Sacramento grocery store, 1932.
Uprooted
by Roy Iwata
Three Iwata brothers and Brownie
Brownie
by Roy Iwata

Each page has 12 stories. New stories are posted at the end of the last page.
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