Mrs. Eldon Burke, director of the Brooklyn Hostel for Japanese Americans, shows an album of clippings to Robert Kazahaya, Kohay ...

1945-08

War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement, 1942-1945 circa 1941-1947

WRA no. G-961

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Full title:Mrs. Eldon Burke, director of the Brooklyn Hostel for Japanese Americans, shows an album of clippings to Robert Kazahaya, Kohay Washizuka, and Takayuke Watanabe. Mr. Kazahaya, who is now working at a nursery in Queens, came East from Rohwer Relocation Center in Arkansas and formerly owned a garage in Los Angeles. Mr. Washizuka owned a grocery store in San Francisco before going to the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming. He expects to go into business in New York City. Mr. Watanabe is also now employed at a nursery. He once worked at a sugar plantation in Hawaii and more recently lived at the Central Utah Relocation Center. The Brooklyn Hostel is operated on a non-sectarian basis by the Brethren Service Committee of the Church of the Brethren. Brooklyn, New York.
Part of: War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement

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