1943 (November 18), Japanese American internment censored cover
from Waialua, Hawaii, to Jerome Relocation Center, Denson,
Arkansas, 20c
1943 (November 18), Japanese American internment censored cover
from Waialua, Hawaii, to Jerome Relocation Center, Denson,
Arkansas, 20c Transport airmail, tied by Maunawai, Hawaii (18 Nov)
c.d.s., corner card of Irene Niimi, addressed to Mr. T. Niimi at
block and barrack address "40---09---A," left side sealed by censor
tape, pair of 1943 Christmas seals on reverse, two-page letter of
17 November discussing family news and a wedding anniversary
enclosed, very fine. Under Executive Order 9066 (February 1942),
approximately 120,000 individuals of Japanese ancestry, most of
them U.S. citizens, were placed in ten remote relocation centres
operated by the War Relocation Authority; the Jerome Relocation
Center was one of two such camps in the Arkansas Delta.
