In September 1942 Japanese Americans incarcerated in Tanforan were transported to Topaz, Utah. This week’s Topaz Stories capture some of their feelings as they leave Tanforan for the unknown..
Grace Mori Saito Tom recalls her first impressions in “On to Topaz.”
Through letters from her mother’s Nisei friends, Ruth Sasaki shares their impressions of the long train “Journey and Arrival” at their new ‘home’ in the Utah desert.
In “Not Oxford Street,” Ruth Hayashi conveys her dismay by contrasting Topaz with her idyllic childhood home in Berkeley.
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