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


Gila River Concentration Camp, Arizona

June 1944 - November 1945


Returned to Hawaii: December 1945

Arrived in Honolulu with about 775 other internees aboard the military troopship the Shawnee.


Hiroe Yamasaki saw sent to the Mainland with her internee father, Kenichi Yamasaki, and family. In Jerome, she married fellow Hawaii internee, Takeo Morikuni.