Internment Locations

Transferred to Mainland: December 1942

Sent aboard the military troopship the Lurline with more than 430 other Hawaii residents for incarceration in Mainland camps.


Jerome Concentration Camp, Arkansas

January 1943 - June 1944


Amache (Granada) Concentration Camp, Colorado

June 1944 - September 1945


Returned to Hawaii: September 1945


Evelyn Hirama married Edward Satoru Miyake of Kauai while she was incarcerated in Jerome and he was stationed at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, as a member of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team. 

She was the only member of her interned family who did not expatriate to Japan.