Group Media & Photos

Yoshiyama family. Jerome Concentration Camp, ca. 1943. Seated (L-R): Matsue, Emiko. Standing: Takeo, Jerry Kazuo, Joji. JCCH/Jerry K. Yoshiyama Archival Collection.

Jerome Concentration Camp, June 1943. Joji Yoshiyama, first row, center. JCCH/Jerry K. Yoshiyama Archival Collection.

Yoshiyama Family. Jerome Concentration Camp, January 1944. L-R: Matsue, Emiko, Takeo, Joji. JCCH/Jerry K. Yoshiyama Archival Collection.

Yoshiyama family with a visiting soldier from Hawaii. Jerome Concentration Camp, 1944. 1st Row (L-R): Joji, Emiko. 2nd Row: Jerry, Matsue, Takeo, Patrick Kumagai. JCCH/Jerry Yoshiyama Archival Collection.

Yoshiyama family with a visiting soldier from Hawaii, Jerome Concentration Camp, 1944. Seated (L-R): Emiko, Joji, Jerry. JCCH/Jerry Yoshiyama Archival Collection.

Yoshiyama Family, Jerome Concentration Camp, June 1944. 1st Row: Emiko, Joji. 2nd Row: Jerry, Matsue, Takeo. JCCH/Jerry Yoshiyama Archival Collection.

Jerome Concentration Camp. Seated (L-R): Iwashita, Shiotani, Nakamura, Joji Yoshiyama, Iwashita. Standing: Shiotani, unknown, unknown, Yoshiyuki Yoshikane (tallest, center: brother of internee Shizuo Yoshikane; voluntarily went into camp with Shizuo), Iwashita, Yamane, Iwashita. JCCH/Shizuo Yoshikane.

Children in front of Yoshiyama barracks, 34-07-F, Jerome Concentration Camp, ca. 1944. 2nd row (L-R): Joji (2nd), Takeo (3rd). JCCH/Jerry K. Yoshiyama Archival Collection.

4th grade class, Jerome Concentration Camp, June 1944. Joji Yoshiyama is second row, second from right. JCCH/Jerry K. Yoshiyama Archival Collection.

Yoshiyama family in Hilo, Hawaii, 1954. Front Row: Grandfather Umekichi Yoshiyama, seated. Standing (L-R): Takeo, Matsue, Jerry, Emiko, Joji. Jerry K. Yoshiyama Archival Collection.
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 Relocation Center, Arkansas
1月 1943 - 6月 1944
Granada (Amache) Relocation Center, Colorado
6月 1944 - 10月 1945
Chicago, Illinois
Returned to Hawaii: November 1945
Arrived in Honolulu with 450 other internees aboard the military troopship the Yarmouth.