Seattle University Japanese Remembrance Garden Records 1940-1946, 2004-2006

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Seattle University Japanese Remembrance Garden Records 1940-1946, 2004-2006

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This collection, assembled from the Seattle University Committee for the Japanese Remembrance Garden, contains planning documents, minutes, and reports of the committee (2004-2006). It also includes artifacts, news clippings, photographs and memorabilia relevant to family histories and internment at Minidoka Relocation Center in Idaho during World War Two, as well as selected sermons and photographs of Father Leopold H. Tibesar, a Maryknoll priest.

2.5 linear feet and 1 scrapbook box

eng,

Special Collections, Lemieux Library and McGoldrick Learning Commons

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SNAC Resource ID: 6374025

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Seattle University. Committee for the Japanese Remembrance Garden.

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Prior to World War Two, many Japanese and Japanese Americans lived and ran vibrant businesses in the neighborhoods surrounding the Seattle University campus. A few Japanese American students were enrolled at Seattle College in 1941, but compelled to end their studies when 120,000 people of Japanese heritage were forcibly relocated and held behind barbed wire in internment camps for three years, without having committed a crime and without due process. The Japanese Remembrance Garden honors the p...

Japanese Remembrance Garden (Seattle, Wash.)

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Tibesar, Leopold H.

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Kubota, Fujitaro.

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