Digital Collection
Deepen your understanding of Yuri Kochiyama with over 3,500 images, from her politicization and growth as a child to an organizer and social movement activist.
Read letters she wrote to servicemen, political prisoners, politicians, and old friends to reveal the complex thinker she was and the concerns that weighed upon her daily decisions in the face of political and personal turmoil.
Reveal her empathy towards human suffering and her tenacity of will through diary entries about her family’s removal to the Santa Anita Detention Center and the Jerome concentration camp and her messages in the Crusaders’ newsletters.
See links between her stories of mass incarceration and her work on behalf of political prisoners and many other issues.
Learn about the wrongful mass incarceration and one woman’s journey for social justice through her rare and revealing documents and ephemera left for posterity.
The Bordered World, Volume 1
Diary of Yuri Kochiyama
These daily entries were written by Yuri, age 21, at the Santa Anita Assembly Center (Avenue 8, Barrack 48). The dates from this diary begins on April 3, 1942 to June 30, 1942.
The Bordered World, Volume 2
Diary of Yuri Kochiyama
This is the second diary in continuation of Yuri’s experience during the Santa Anita Assembly Center and the reassignment to a detention facility. The dates from this diary begins on July 2, 1942 to November 26, 1942.
Santa Anita Crusaders
Scrapbook of Yuri Kochiyama
This scrapbook contains letters, holiday greetings, newspaper clippings, and a variety of communications during the incarceration period.
