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.