ヨシ・クロミヤ
(Yosh Kuromiya)
ヨシュ・クロミヤは1923年、カリフォルニア州シエラマドレ生まれ。真珠湾攻撃で第二次世界大戦が勃発した当時、彼はパサデナ短期大学に通っていた。彼と家族はカリフォルニア州ロサンゼルス郡のポモナ集合センターに収容され、その後ワイオミング州ハートマウンテン強制収容所に移送された。彼は2018年7月に95歳で亡くなった。（写真提供：アイリーン・クロミヤ）
2018年7月更新
この執筆者によるストーリー
Yosh Kuromiya: Random Thoughts On Being Nisei During World War II
2011年6月28日 • ヨシ・クロミヤ
Note: Born in Sierra Madre, California in April 1923, Yosh Kuromiya and his family moved to Monrovia, where he attended grammar school, junior high and high school. He was attending Pasadena Junior College as an art major when his family was forced out of their homes and imprisoned, like other Americans of Japanese ancestry, during World War II. His family was first sent to the assembly center at the Pomona Fairgrounds, before they were imprisoned at the Heart Mountain concentration …
Principled Protest
2008年5月29日 • ヨシ・クロミヤ
February 19, 1942—a day that should live in infamy. It was the day that United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order #9066 allowing military authorities to EXCLUDE anyone from anywhere without trial or hearings. It led to the removal of all Japanese Americans, citizens and aliens alike, from the West Coast and into concentration camps in the interior of our country. We lost our businesses, our possessions, our homes, our friends and neighbors. However, it was not the …
Reflections of a Gardener's Son
2007年7月4日 • ヨシ・クロミヤ
My Dad was working as a gardener when I was born. Then, when I was in first grade, he dropped his gardening work to establish a fruit-stand business, which was just starting to do well when Pearl Harbor was attacked. We lost everything when they sent us to Heart Mountain. After the war he went back into gardening because it was cheaper to buy a lawn mower and pick up a few jobs than to invest in another business. I …
