“Our First Meal – Not Out Kind of Food” 2/13/1943
“… an Issei man sits on a bench at a wooden picnic table and grimaces in disgust at the thought of eating hot dogs with catsup on Wonder Bread for his first camp dinner.”
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“The Train – Issao and Mutsushi See the Desert”
“… as they endure the thirty-hour train ride (from tk to the Poston prison camp) Gene is dressed in a suit. His signature forelock is swept to the right, as he looks out the window with his brother, worrying about their uncertain future.”
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headline, The Seattle Daily Times, April 16, 1942, p. 2
Copyright 1942, The Seattle Times. Courtesy of The Seattle Times.
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Gene Sogioka, 1942.
“Minnie Sogioka Nursing Cecile on the Train to Poston, Arizona”.
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Cecile’s handmade vaccination record from Poston.
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“Ojichan and Obachan Mayebo Watching Baby Akemi”
Gene Sogioka 1942
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“Acts of Violence on Mr. Kido”
Gene Sogioka 1942-43
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left: Gene Sogioka
right: Jean Sogioka La Spina