The Stories Page Seven

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.

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Junzo Hibino
Letter to a Nisei Son
by Jean Hibino
Michiko and friends Michiko Nakamura and Hisako Oku in Topaz, August 1943.
A Topaz Childhood
by Michiko Mukai
Hatsuki Nakahara and fish pond he built in Topaz, 1943.
Topaz Fish Story
by Jun Nakahara Dairiki
Section of cardboard "Exit" sign signed by more than 50 people.
Exit From Tanforan
by Diane Yuen
Clip from the newspaper Topaz Times showing an illustration of a turkey, with a processing plant and mountains in the background.
The Thing With Feathers
by Anonymous
Young Japanese American man in undershirt, standing outdoors in front of Army barrack.
Go For Broke
by Ruth Sasaki
The Nakahara family in Topaz: Mother Kita, two sons and four daughters, including Jun, in the center.
The Long Haul
by Jun Nakahara Dairiki
A Model A Ford driven by a Caucasian woman, loaded with happy black, Asian and white kids.
Two Camps
by Jon Yatabe and Ruth Sasaki
A young Japanese American woman and child (about seven years old) sit on platform sheltered by a tent cover.
The Wizard of Provo
by Jon Yatabe
A Japanese American family poses in front of their grocery store, the Yamada Grocery, in Penryn, CA, in the 1930s. They are mostly young adults except for two young children.
Swept Away
by Doris Yamada Yagi
Watercolor of a swirling dust storm in grays, reddish browns and white, with two huddled figures in the middle. A barbed wire fence runs along the lower left. Barracks appear faintly in the distant background.
The Winds of Topaz
by Jon Yatabe
Silhouette of a girl with arm upraised, at the top of a jungle gym, against the twilight sky.
The Jungle Gym
by Jon Yatabe

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