Material contribuído por mmasumoto
Nanka Nikkei Voices
Starting a New Life
Marie Masumoto
My mother, Kinuko Saito, was holding me in her arms as we left Japan. I was six months old when we embarked on a military ship headed for Los Angeles via Seattle. Without knowing any English, my mother left her family and friends to start a new life in the …
Digging Into the Past: A volunteer's experience at Manzanar
Marie Masumoto
On my birthday, May 6, 2007, I got an e-mail from my friend Park Ranger Carrie Andresen-Strawn at the Manzanar National Historic Site Interpretive Center. She wanted to know if I would like to volunteer on an excavation of two gardens at Blocks 9 and 10. These two blocks housed …
Masumoto Family Collection
family history
mmasumoto
Photos and descriptions of the Okamoto, Masumoto, Saito, and Tadokoro Family. |