Ishida, Atsushi Art, 1921-

Abstract The Atsushi Art Ishida Collection is comprised of about 900 photographs (prints, negatives, and digital reproductions) and other materials chronicling his time immediately after/during his incarceration in the Santa Anita Assembly Center in California, the Jerome incarceration camp in Arkansas, the Tule Lake Segregation Center in California, and the Minidoka incarceration camp in Idaho, and also depicting his time in pre-war Japan and during the Korean War. Most of the items in this...

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Included are journals and narratives written by Atsushi Art Ishida in Japanese. Materials detail the mass removal after the attack on Pearl Harbor, trips to the Santa Anita Assembly Center and Jerome incarceration camp, life in the camp, transfer to the Tule Lake Segregation Center, and hearings held in the camp to follow up his answers to questions 27 and 28 of the form that is known as the "loyalty questionnaire" and his intention for U.S. citizenship renunciation.