Japanese-American internment camp church bulletins and newsletters collection, 1942-1945

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Japanese-American internment camp church bulletins and newsletters collection, 1942-1945

1942-1945

https://grace.gtu.edu/record=b1377085

Collection consists of Sunday worship bulletins and/or newsletters from churches in seven of the WWII internment camps. The bulletins and newsletters provide orders of worship for Sunday services, articles, announcements, notices of baptisms, mariages, deaths, and other items of interest for the church members. Several have sections reprinting parts or all of letters received from members who had left the camps for school, jobs, or to serve in the armed forces. Though there are more extensive runs for the churches in Minidoka, Rohwer, and Poston camps, all are incomplete The Minidoka Churchman reprints the most extensive and complete letters received The Clearwater Clarion Call was published by the paster of the Clearwater, California Baptist Church for the members of the church in wartime dispersion Streams in the desert is a compilation of testimonies from young people as to how evacuation and relocation affected their spiritual life and relationship to God

5 boxes; 1 1/2 linear feet

eng, Latn

Graduate Theological Union, Flora Lamson Hewlett Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7643859

Graduate Theological Union, Flora Lamson Hewlett Library

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Rohwer Relocation Center (Ark.)

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The Rohwer War Relocation Center was a World War II Japanese American concentration camp in Desha County, Arkansas. It was in operation from September 18, 1942, until November 30, 1945, and held as many as 8,475 Japanese Americans forcibly evacuated from California....

Clearwater Baptist Church (Clearwater, Calif.)

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Central Utah Relocation Center

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Church of the Holy Apostles (Hunt, Idaho)

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Rohwer Federated Christian Church (McGehee, Ark.)

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Third Christian Church of Poston (Poston, Ariz.)

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Minidoka Relocation Center

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Concentration camp established by U.S. War Relocation Authority near Hunt, Idaho, for internment of U.S. citizens of Japanese ancestry. From the description of Records, 1942-1945. (University of Idaho Library). WorldCat record id: 42926264 ...

Heart Mountain Relocation Center (Wyo.)

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{Text of biographical or historical note, in paragraphs; separate each with paragraph tags} The Heart Mountain Relocation Center was one of ten relocation centers constructed as a result of Executive Order 9066 (EO 9066), which President Franklin Roosevelt signed into effect on February 19, 1942. The Center, located near the town of Cody in northwest Wyoming, held Japanese American internees from 1942-1945. The camp reached a maximum population of 10,767, making it the third largest settlement i...

Heart Mountain Community Christian Church (Wyo.)

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Jerome Relocation Center (Denson, Ark.)

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Jerome Relocation Center Community Christian Church (Denson, Ark.)

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Granada Relocation Center

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Records accumulated by Yatsutoshi Yoshizawa in the course of his duties as a member of the Block Managers Assembly. From the description of Records, 1943-1945. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 26282043 The Granada Relocation Center opened on Aug. 27, 1942, near the southeastern Colorado town of Granada (sometimes referred to as Amache, after the daughter of a Cheyenne chief). Most of Granada's inmates were transferred there from the Merced and Santa Anita Assembly Centers in C...

Granada Christian Church (Amache, Colo.)

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Poston Relocation Center (Poston, Ariz.)

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