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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 |