Original Caption: Hayward, California. Two children of the Mochida family who, with their parents, are awaiting evacuation bus. The youngster on the right holds a sandwich given her by one of a group of women who were present from a local church. The family unit is kept intact during evacuation and at War Relocation Authority centers where evacuees of Japanese ancestry will be housed for the duration.
U.S. National Archives' Local Identifier: NWDNS-210-G-C155
From: Series: Central Photographic File of the War Relocation Authority, compiled 1942 – 1945 (Record Group 210)
Created by: Department of the Interior. War Relocation Authority. (02/16/1944 - 06/30/1946)
Production Date: 05/08/1942
Photographer: Lange, Dorothea, 1895-1965
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Repository: Still Pictures Unit at the National Archives at College Park (College Park, MD)
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~Liss 36 months ago | reply
Thank you for sharing these photos and the article about these children. The more research I do about my family during WWII the more I realize how much we are never taught in schools. It's a shame that I mention certain topics to young or old and they look at me with a blank stare. Photos like these will release many families from their silence I would hope.
DJHuber 36 months ago | reply
This photo touches me deeply.
addie65 28 months ago | reply
"Evacuation," "War relocation," at least it was not called. "Taking the Japs on a vacation."
The euphomism that has always annoyed me the most in all of this is "Evacuees of Japanese decent." They were Americans, for pete's sake!
I am confused by people calling this moving.
I don't find this photo moving, I find it ugly, disgusting. These children are not going to the park, those tags are not so they will not get lost from their little classmates during an outing before snacktime.
scrnnmna 24 months ago | reply
:(