Masukichi Saiki, 78-year-old Issei who voluntarily evacuated from Hawaii to the Jerome Relocation Center, is a helper in the kitchen ...

1944-08

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

WRA no. I-365

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Full title:Masukichi Saiki, 78-year-old Issei who voluntarily evacuated from Hawaii to the Jerome Relocation Center, is a helper in the kitchen of the Hotel Salisbury on fashionable West 57th Street in New York City. A former sugar plantation worker, Mr. Saiki is living in New York with his daughter-in-law and his two grandchildren Theodore, 2, and Sanford, 4-1/2. They voluntarily evacuated from Hilo, Hawaii, to the Jerome Relocation Center in January 1943 in order to join the children's father, Kazuo Saiki, a merchant seaman now at sea. He was evacuated from a ship in San Francisco harbor in the spring of 1942 to the Santa Anita Assembly Center. From there he went to the Central Relocation Center. Later he went to the Central Utah Relocation Center and from there to the Jerome Relocation Center. He left Jerome in order to ship out in September 1943, and in May 1944 the rest of the Saiki family relocated to New York. Photographer: Iwasaki, Hikaru New York, New York.
Part of: War Relocation Authority Photographs of Japanese-American Evacuation and Resettlement

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