Our grandparents were born in the 1920’s in Vancouver BC. Their parents had immigrated to the Canadian West Coast from Gunma, Nagano, and Hiroshima. During the war, our grandmother and grandfather along with their families were interned in Tashme. Both of them were young adults during the time of the internment and had finished high...Continue reading
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Childhood perception of the incarceration
I was too young to realize what was happening. It was all new and different but nothing seemed traumatic or horrifying. It was an adventure. My memories are that the experience was mostly fun. My family went through internment relatively unscathed because my father was able to maintain his practice in the internment camp and...Continue reading
Memories of Tashme
I don’t have memories of how we got to Tashme, except to say that we drove there because my father, who was a doctor, was exempted from the expropriation of his car because there might be an occasion when a patient had to be moved from Tashme to a hospital in Vancouver. That’s my understanding...Continue reading