Feb
19
2014
Image of the Day: The Horror of Japanese Internment, Cont’d
“While their men were forced to return to the Pribilof Islands to harvest seals for the Government, the Aleut women remained at the Funter Bay Evacuation Camp. They petitioned for better conditions, which were so poor that disease and other causes resulted in a 10-percent death rate.”
Petition Protesting Conditions, Aleut Women,
October 10, 1942
Pribilof Island Logbooks
Records of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Record Group 22 (National Archives Identifier 2641505)
Read the transcript of the petition here.
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