Internment Locations
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 - August 1943
Repatriated to Japan: September 1943
Included among the repatriates who left from New York on the M.S. Gripsholm were 72 Hawaii internees and their families.
When Kikuyo Suetomi was transferred to the mainland in November 1942, she chaperoned fourteen-year-old Takeko Annabell Nekomoto. Takeko Annabell had entered internment as a way to reunite with her father, Shunichi Nekomoto, who was then under incarceration at the Lordsburg camp in New Mexico. Two weeks after her father had been sent to the mainland, Takeko's mother had died in Honolulu, leaving the young teenager alone without a parent.