Read this fascinating article about the Nikkei Japanese American Internment camp letters contained in our Local History Room Morrish Collection.

 

"Named after Elmer Morrish (1886-1957), a Redwood City banker, this archive consists of a back-and-forth correspondence between Morrish and the Redwood City Nikkei camp inmates relative to their wartime finances and property management that resourcefully contextualizes an important and tragic chapter of American history. It is the primary (and sometimes quite personal) documents in the Morrish Collection that served Linda Ivey and Kevin Kaatz, historians at California State University, East Bay, as their principal research data for Citizen Internees." 

 

You can also check out the book, Citizen Internees, here