Internment Locations

Transferred to Mainland: January 1943

Sent aboard the military troopship the Kota Agoeng with more than 260 other Hawaii residents for incarceration in Mainland camps.


Jerome Concentration Camp, Arkansas

February 1943 - March 1943


Topaz Concentration Camp, Utah

March 1943 - October 1944


Chicago, Illinois


While in Topaz, Thelma Kaneshiro married her fiancé, Tadao Tom Tanahara, who was originally from Hawaii but living in San Francisco at the outbreak of the war.