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強制収容所の場所

Arrested: December 1941


Sand Island Internment Camp, Honolulu, Oahu Island


This internee was in the first group of 172 men (mostly Issei) who were sent aboard the U.S. Grant military transport ship for internment in U.S. Army and Justice Department camps on the Mainland. The internees were sent together from camp to camp, with some paroled to War Relocation Authority camps to reunite with family or transferred for repatriation to Japan. This internee was in a sub-group of First Transfer Group internees who were sent from Livingston to Missoula before being transferred to Santa Fe.


Angel Island Detention Facility, California

3月 1942


Camp McCoy Internment Camp, Wisconsin

3月 1942 - 5月 1942


Camp Forrest Internment Camp, Tennessee

5月 1942 - 6月 1942


Camp Livingston Internment Camp, Louisiana

6月 1942 - 6月 1943


Fort Missoula Internment Camp, Montana

6月 1943 - 4月 1944


Santa Fe Internment Camp, New Mexico

4月 1944 - 10月 1945


Returned to Hawaii: November 1945

Arrived in Honolulu with 450 other internees aboard the military troopship the Yarmouth.


Hideyuki Serizawa emigrated to Hawaii from Shizuoka Prefecture in 1912. He worked as a Japanese language school teacher in Kona and Hilo on the Big Island before moving his family to Honolulu in the late 1920s.

In 1941, twenty-year-old son Nobuo Pete Serizawa was working as a laborer with the U.S. Forest Service in Missoula County, Montana, not far from what would become the Fort Missoula Interment Camp, where the elder Serizawa would spend a year of confinement. In November 1941, Nobuo was inducted into the U.S. Army and served throughout the war as a member of the 100th Infantry Battalion.

Hideyuki Serizawa returned to Honolulu after internment and continued to teach Japanese at Toyo Gakuen. His eldest son, Toshio Serizawa, would become a member of the state Legislature representing Hilo.