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Dear Miss Breed: Letters from Camp
URL: http://www.janm.org/exhibitions/breed/title.htm

Description:
A retrospective of San Diego Public Library children's librarian Clara Breed, who became "a lifeline to the outside world" for Japanese American children relocated during World War II to internment camps. Breed "distributed stamped and addressed postcards to her young friends, asking them to write to her and describe their life in camp." The site documents life in the camps with letters, photographs, and audio and video files. From the Japanese American National Museum.

Publisher:
Japanese American National Museum

Extra Keywords
concentration camps Nisei War Relocation Authority second two WWII

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Breed, Clara E.
Children's librarians
Japanese American children -- Correspondence
Japanese Americans -- Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945
People
World War, 1939-1945 -- United States

LII Database Information:
Record 20740 created by Katherine Wolf on 02/26/2006
Last modification on 07/29/2009
Published: 03/16/2006  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/20740