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My 101-year-old grandmother Toshiko died three weeks ago. We are cleaning out her home and I found these relics from their time in the Topaz, Utah, relocation camps in WWII—my grandfather’s WRA cards, my father’s school essay years later and the Topaz Times camp newspaper. 
I’ve written a couple times about my family’s connection to the internment camps including when my father handed Obama a baseball card a few years ago washingtonpost.com/news/early-lea…
Here are some more artifacts from the internment camps. Notice to report to Topaz from Santa Anita processing facility; my dad’s Topaz card; family claim against fed gov for losses after dry cleaning biz seized.
Redress to my grandmother from United States in ‘89 of $20,000 each. My grandfather, never a citizen, died in ‘87. My grandmother, born in Cali., got it as did my father and aunt. Chicago police docs calling my grandfather “yellow” and a “Jap.”
My grandparents in Golden State Park, Dec. 5, 1937.
