Letters found in former Denver pharmacy give glimpse into life at WWII...
DENVER - The renovation of a former Denver pharmacy has turned up stacks of letters from Japanese-American internment camps during World War II,...
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By Colleen Slevin Associated Press Comments Alissa Williams holds a letter from a Japanese internment camp during World War II recently found in the wall of a former Denver pharmacy. (Ed Andrieski /...
View ArticleRenovation in Denver uncovers letters from Japanese internment camps
Alissa Williams holds letters addressed to T.K. Pharmacy at her Denver home. They were found during pharmacy renovations. (Ed Andrieski, The Associated Press) Some letters arriving from...
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Alissa Williams holds a letter addressed to T.K. Pharmacy at her home in Denver. The letter from the early 1940s was found with other documents and letters during renovations at a former Denver...
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DENVER - Some letters arriving from Japanese-American internment camps during World War II were very specific, asking for a certain brand of bath powder, cold cream or cough drops — but only the red...
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DENVER — Letters arriving from Japanese-American internment camps during World War II were very specific, asking for a certain brand of bath powder, cold cream or cough drops — but only the red ones....
View ArticleWW2 letters found in US building
Denver - Some letters arriving from Japanese-American internment camps during World War II were very specific, asking for a certain brand of bath powder, cold cream or cough drops - but only the red...
View Article>Internment camp letters found in Denver building
DENVER (AP) — Some letters arriving from Japanese-American internment camps during World War II were very specific, asking for a certain brand of bath powder, cold cream or cough drops — but only the...
View ArticleWWII internment camp letters found in Denver building
DENVER -- Some letters arriving from Japanese-American internment camps during World War II were very specific, asking for a certain brand of bath powder, cold cream or cough drops - but only the red...
View ArticleLetters found in former Denver pharmacy show glimpse into life at WWII...
DENVER — Some letters arriving from Japanese-American internment camps during World War II were very specific, asking for a certain brand of bath powder, cold cream or cough drops — but only the red...
View ArticleLetters offer glimpse of life at WWII internment
DENVER -- Some letters arriving from Japanese-American internment camps during World War II were very specific, asking for a certain brand of bath powder, cold cream or cough drops -- but only the red...
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The Ralph L. Carr Colorado Judicial Center has this columbine design on the floor of the atrium at the entrance. (Kathryn Scott Osler, Denver Post) The spectacular new, neoclassical addition to Civic...
View ArticleJapanese-Americans share stories of World War II internment
Five Americans of Japanese descent who were forcibly removed from their homes 71 years ago and sent to live in internment camps shared their stories during the annual Day of Remembrance at the History...
View ArticlePilgrimage to Granada keeps alive story of Camp Amache
The Granada War Relocation Center, or Camp Amache, was one of 10 camps built to incarcerate people of Japanese ancestry. (Helen H. Richardson, Denver Post file) Enclosed within a desert, buried under...
View ArticleWWII internment camp unearthed in Idaho
Deep in the mountains of northern Idaho, miles from the nearest town, lays evidence of a little-known portion of a shameful chapter of American history. There are no buildings, signs or markers to...
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Cease-fire begins between Israel and Palestinian militants, ending fiercest fighting in years GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A cease-fire agreement between Israel and the Gaza Strip's Hamas rulers took...
View ArticleUniversity to Lead NEH-Funded Archives Project to Digitize Japanese American...
(Source: California State University, Dominguez Hills) The California State University, Dominguez Hills Archives and Special Collections Department, in collaboration with archives divisions at CSU...
View ArticleNational Park Service grants $2.9 million for WWII Japanese internment projects
The National Park Service today announced 21 grants totaling more than $2.9 million to help preserve and interpret the World War II internment sites of Japanese Americans. More than 120,000 Japanese...
View ArticleThese Crafts Made By Japanese-American Prisoners Will Renew Your Faith In...
Half of the 120,000 prisoners were children. It was the start of the War Years, the turning from 1941 to 1942. Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor and President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered 90 percent of...
View ArticleJapanese-Americans recall baseball glory during internment camp years
SAN JOSE, Calif. - They're a bit hard of hearing, and they move a lot slower these days. But that didn't stop a handful of Japanese-American octogenarians from attending a special event held in their...
View ArticleNational Park Service Announces $2.9 Million in Grants to Preserve and...
(Source: NPS - National Park Service) National Park Service Announces $2.9 Million in Grants to Preserve and Interpret World War II Japanese American Confinement Sites WASHINGTON - National Park...
View ArticleObama making WWII internment camp in Hawaii a national monument
Sen. Brian Schatz Carolyn Kaster / Associated Press Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) said it was particularly significant that the designation of the Honouliuli National Monument was being made by...
View ArticleObama to make WWII internment camp in Hawaii a national monument
WASHINGTON (Tribune News Service) — For more than half a century, what had once been Hawaii's largest and longest-operating internment camp was ignored and forgotten. To the hundreds of Japanese...
View ArticleInternment camp letters found in Denver building
DENVER â Some letters arriving from Japanese-American internment camps during World War II were very specific, asking for a certain brand of bath powder, cold cream or cough drops - but only the red...
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