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Incarceration Years: Lordsburg/Santa Fe, Seagoville, Amache Camp Photos and DOJ Documents

INS-DOJ Short term leave request to Minidoka Internment Camp


Published: Feb. 13, 2011 Modified: Feb. 11, 2025

Rev. Wada would travel from Amache to Minidoka to do church services.  This is how he became known to the church members of Seattle's Japanese Baptist Church.   Seattle Church members and Rev. Emory Andrews requested his services after WWII.   This is how the family ended up in Seattle after camp release.
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Rev. Wada would travel from Amache to Minidoka to do church services.  This is how he became known to the church members of Seattle's Japanese Baptist Church.   Seattle Church members and Rev. Emory Andrews requested his services after WWII.   This is how the family ended up in Seattle after camp release.

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