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bess chin Bess K. Chinborn in Alameda, California, interned at Heart Mountain, Wyoming, worked as a teacher’s assistant in the camps hiroshi kashiwagi Hiroshi Kashiwagi Held in Tule Lake as a so-called "no-no boy" resister of the loyalty oath, now an author and member of the Screen Actors' Guild  
janet daijogo Janet Daijogo born in San Francisco, interned at Topaz at age five, teaches kindergarten in Corte Madera, California masaru Kawaguchi Masaru KawaguchiHigh school basketball player forced to leave his school, team, and home for Topaz, Utah where he was interned for two years  
fumi hayashi Fumi HayashiDeported from Berkeley, California and interned as a high school student at the Topaz relocation camp in 1942 rose nieda Rose NiedaUprooted from her home in Washington at age nineteen, sent to Pinedale Assembly Center and then on to Tule Lake internment camp  
chizu iiyama Chizu Iiyama – raised in Francisco's Chinatown, transfered to Santa Anitaw here she lived for six months in a horse stall afterwhich she was sent to Topaz
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marvin uratsu Marvin Uratsu – Born in Sacramento but raised in Japan - sent to Tule Lake and later returned to Japan with the U.S. MIS
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ernie iiyama Ernie Iiyama – born in Oakland, CA in 1912, sent to Topaz where he was an active leader in the Nisei Young Democrats
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marvin uratsu Sato Hashizume – born in Portland, Oregon, send to Minodoka internment camp in Idaho as a 10 year old
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paul ohtaki Paul Ohtaki born on Bainbridge Island, Washington, sent to Manzanar in California, among the first families in the country to be interned      

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