A letter from Kenji Okuda to Norio Higano from Camp Harmony about his feelings on internment on Memorial Day, May 30, 1942.

Camp Harmony was a name for the Puyallup Assembly Center, organized in May 1942 on the Western Washington Fairgrounds in Puyallup, Washington. More than 7,000 Japanese Americans from Washington and Alaska were sent there before being transferred to Tule Lake, Minidoka, and Heart Mountain Relocation Centers.

Citation Information
Okuda, Kenji, “Kenji Okuda letter to Norio Higano from Camp Harmony,” Digital Public Library of America, https://dp.la/item/e0934a498297dd0d1a4c60068f3835fb.
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Courtesy of University of Washington.

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