Susumu Yenokida oral history interview, July 6 and 7, 2008

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Susumu Yenokida oral history interview, July 6 and 7, 2008

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After Yenokida was drafted into the army, he refused to report for service and was court marshaled. He was sent to a prison camp in Tuscon, but was later transferred to Texarkana Maximum Prison. He was released in 1944, but was unable to move back into Amache Concentration Camp to be with his family. Instead, he found work as a farmer.

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Yenokida talks about his family background. Both his mother and father came from Fukuoka and started a farm in California, where they would grow various crops. While going to school in Ballico, Yenokida would often get into mischief, sometimes…

Yenokida continues his life in Cortez, California, speaking about how his family came to be farmers and how they purchased their property of nearly 20 acres of land. Next, he discusses the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the subsequent evacuation notices…

Yenokida begins his trial in Denver, submitting paperwork showing that Japanese Americans were not being given their Constitutional Rights, however, the judge did not agree and he was sentenced to Tuscon Federal Work Camp for 1 year. He and the other…

Yenokida discusses his time after his imprisonment, working in Denver, farming and shipping vegetables with his brother. Later, they would head back to Cortez to visit their mother and start their own farm, which ended up having over 3,000 acres of…

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