Priscilla Wegars papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: MG 629

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This collection contains correspondence from Pricsilla Wegars and Yosh Shimoi, floppy disc containing original diary digitized and full English translation of diary.

Dates

Creation: 2005-2007

Creator

Sakaino, Bunro (Person)

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research

Biographical / Historical

After the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, the United States forcibly removed approximately 120,000 Japanese immigrants and Americans, relocating them in internment or prison camps across the West. Bunro Sakaeno wrote the diary translated in this collection while in the Fort Missoula, MT prison camp in 1942. He was later transferred to a prison camp in Santa Fe, NM where he resided until his release in 1945. This collection was donated by Priscilla Wegars an Affiliate Assistant Professor and curator of the University of Idaho’s Asian American Comparative Collection. Her research focuses on the historical archaeology of Japanese and Chinese Americans in the 19th and 20th century.

Extent

0.50 Cubic Feet

Language of Materials

English

Japanese

Additional Description

Abstract

English translation of Japanese Internment Prison Camp Diary from Fort Missoula, Montana in 1942. Includes translation correspondence and floppy disc with digital copy of original diary In Japanese.