Documents Related to the Mixed-Marriage/Mixed-Blood Policy of the U.S. WWII Concentration Camps

June 7 & 9 1942: Letter from Tulare administrator about the Friar family

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Letter to Herman P. Goebel, Jr., Tulare Assembly Center, California, Jun 9, 1942, General Correspondence File, Reel 149, Tulare Center Manager, Mixed Marriages/Evacuee, National Archives, San Bruno, CA.

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A letter from an assistant to the Assistant Secretary of War to Mrs. Funn, informing her that she will not be released.

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Letter from William P. Scobey to Mrs. Herbert Funn, June 19, 1943, " Mixed Marriage Cases-Ltrs, Memos dated 1942-06-16 thru 1943-08-01 Pgs23_ck," Doc ID: 231, Japanese American Veterans Association, Research Archive, Digitized Documents Project, Archived Documents: 13, http://www.javadc.org/java/docs/1942-06-16%20Mixed%20Marriage%20Cases-Ltrs,%20Memos%20dated%201942-06-16%20thru%201943-08-01%20Pgs23_ck.pdf (accessed June 14, 2024)

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A letter from the War Relocation Authority in response to Laverne Matsuda's request to join her incarcerated Japanese American husband:

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Appendix 5, Document TL 18: “The Matsuda Family,” Case documents TL-17-26 by family name [indicates pseudonym], Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study, Compiled by Tamotsu Shibutani, Filename: ccubanc6714_b266r21_0008_4., Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement records, UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

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U.S. Army officer's letter refusing to consider Gomez's plea for exemption from incarceration until after he has been removed from his home and imprisoned in Tule Lake:

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Letter from Herman P. Goebel, Major, Calvary, to Carlos Antonio Gomez,” Appendix II, Document TL 6: The Gomez Family, Case documents TL-1-6, 8 by family name [indicates pseudonym], Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study, Compiled by Tamotsu Shibutani, compiler, Filename: cubanc6714_b266r21_0008_1.pdf, Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement records, UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library.

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A Tule Lake report on the 65-year-old Japanese widow of an American diplomat, incarcerated and separated from her children:

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“Document TL 12: The Prince Family,” Case documents TL-10, 12-16 - by family name [indicates pseudonym], Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement Study, Compiled by Tamotsu Shibutani, Tamotsu, compiler, Filename: cubanc6714_b266r21_0008_3.pdf, Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement records, UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

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Tulare administrator's list of mixed-marriage families incarcerated there, their hopes for release, and the near unanimous impossibility of attaining their freedom during the war:

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“Mixed-Marriage Families,” Memo from Nils Aanonsen, July 30, 1942, Tulare Assembly Center, General Correspondence File, Reel 149, Tulare Center Manager, Mixed Marriages/Evacuee, National Archives, San Bruno, CA.

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Change to the Mixed-Marriage/Mixed-Blood Policy, announced August 21, 1942:

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Letter from Herman P. Goebel Jr., to Captain Astrup, August 21, 1942, "Mixed Marriage Policy," "Ltrs, Memos, Rules, Regs re contraband, travel, curfews in WDC dated 1942-11-27 thru 1942-12-08 Pgs30_ck," Doc ID: 1675, Japanese American Veterans Association, Research Archive, Digitized Documents Project, Archived Documents: 26.

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