Internment Locations

Arrested: October 1942


Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island

October 1942 - November 1942


Transferred to Mainland: November 1942

Sent aboard the passenger ship Antigua with more than 100 other Hawaii residents to War Relocation Authority camps on the Mainland.


Jerome Concentration Camp, Arkansas

November 1942 - September 1943


Tule Lake Segregation Center, California

September 1943 - February 1946


Returned to Hawaii: March 1946

Arrived in Honolulu aboard the military troopship the Marine Wolf.


Takeshi Ansai and his wife, Fumi, had two children while in camp. Son Shinichi Carl was born in Jerome in 1943. Daughter Kiyoko was born in Tule Lake in 1944. Kiyoko died shortly after her birth.