Evanston, IL for high school – Matsue Watanabe (OH0068)
Video Interview — October, 2006 To see this interview in its entirety, go to the Densho website archives. You will have to register to be allowed access to their archives. Once in the archive, visit the Visual History Collections: Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community Collection.
Manzanar, Mother worked in kitchen – Matsue Watanabe (OH0067)
Video Interview — October, 2006 To see this interview in its entirety, go to the Densho website archives. You will have to register to be allowed access to their archives. Once in the archive, visit the Visual History Collections: Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community Collection.
Manzanar school – Matsue Watanabe (OH0066)
Video Interview — October, 2006 To see this interview in its entirety, go to the Densho website archives. You will have to register to be allowed access to their archives. Once in the archive, visit the Visual History Collections: Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community Collection.
Manzanar barracks and bathrooms – Matsue Watanabe (OH0065)
Video Interview — October, 2006 To see this interview in its entirety, go to the Densho website archives. You will have to register to be allowed access to their archives. Once in the archive, visit the Visual History Collections: Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community Collection.
Leaving on ferry followed by train ride – Matsue Watanabe (OH0064)
Video Interview — October, 2006
Packing and what students think – Matsue Watanabe (OH0063)
Video Interview — October, 2006 To see this interview in its entirety, go to the Densho website archives. You will have to register to be allowed access to their archives. Once in the archive, visit the Visual History Collections: Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community Collection.
Registering – Matsue Watanabe (OH0062)
Video Interview — October, 2006 To see this interview in its entirety, go to the Densho website archives. You will have to register to be allowed access to their archives. Once in the archive, visit the Visual History Collections: Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community Collection.
FBI in house, visits father in Seattle immigration office – Matsue Watanabe (OH0061)
Video Interview — October, 2006 To see this interview in its entirety, go to the Densho website archives. You will have to register to be allowed access to their archives. Once in the archive, visit the Visual History Collections: Bainbridge Island Japanese American Community Collection.
In Memoriam: Matsue Nishimori Watanabe
Beloved Bainbridge Islander, most recently a resident of Redmond, WA, Matsue Watanabe passed away on January 22, 2022 at the age of 94. BIJAC is grateful for her contribution to the oral histories and will always remember her fondly. She will be missed. You are welcome to view the video
Leaving Camps During the War
Both the FBI and the Justice Department had determined before the war that only a very few Nikkei posed any threat to the U.S. As the "hysteria" that fueled the exclusion began to die down by the summer of 1942, official avenues of escape from the camps were sanctioned for
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