Don't miss out on the opportunity to donate to the Poston Brick Program.

This is a MAJOR fundraising campaign to get us started with preserving Poston's remaining historic structures to create a museum. The museum will tell the stories of the Japanese Americans and Native Americans who shared the surrounding land.
 
For $100 donation or more, you can purchase a 4" x 8" brick with a personalized inscription (name of Poston internee, donor's name or wording  of your choice).

To obtain a brick donation form or check on the progress of this fundraising program,  click on "BRICK CAMPAIGN" (on the left side of your screen).


                

What are the Poston, Arizona block books about?

Basically, the book is a "Who's Who" directory of the incarcerated people and where they lived within each block and barrack based on the 1944 Poston census. The book includes names and limited photos, and the marriages, births, deaths, location from where, and when some were taken by the FBI from their homes, and when and where they went when they were told to "leave" Poston and had no where to go. 

The book tells of some of the students who were released to attend college, others went outside for agricultural work in nearby states, and the Poston organization memberships and positions held, etc..  Information mostly extracted from the Poston Chronicles and/or oral histories by the author. 

The goal of the book series is to let outsiders know that each person was a real person.   Most descendants have no idea WHO were living in the same block.  Those who were incarcerated did not talk about this traumatic episode in their disrupted their lives which occurred from 1942-1945.

Poston, Arizona camp block 17

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Poston, Arizona Block 17 book
Pre-sale orders only.
 
Softcover $28 (incl S & H)
Hardcover $40 (incl S & H)





Index of block 17 family names: Arita, Awaya, Fujimoto, Fujita, Fukuda, Fukushima, Hashimoto, Hayase, Hiraki, Horita, Ikeda, Itow, Iwamuro, Kanazawa, Kawahara, Kobayashi, Maruyama, Masumoto ,Morimoto, Mukai, Murata, Nakamura, Nakawatase, Nishida, Nishijima, Nishio, Nishioka, Nishita, Noda, Okita, Osumi, Ota, Ouchida, Sakai, Sakaye, Sawabe, Shigemi, Shingai, Sugimoto, Suyemasa, Tabuchi, Takahashi, Takata, Tanabe, Tanaka, Taniguchi, Toyofuku, Umeda, Uyehata, Yamaguchi, Yamamoto,Yoshida, Yoshioka.....

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Poston Arizona block 307

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Poston, Arizona Block 307 book pre-sale orders only.
Softcover $28 (incl S & H)
Hardcover $40 (incl S & H)

 
Poston block 307 book index of family names:
Aburamen, Akahoshi, Aoki, Aoto, Arikawa, Doi, Ezaki, Fujimitsu, Fukumoto, Fukushima, Goto, Hara, Hasegawa, Hashikaku, Hayakawa, Higashi, Hiramoto, Hirano, Ichimura, Ikeda, Imamura, Inouye, Ito, Iwai, Iwata, Kakihara, Kamiura, Kato, Kawamoto, Kirihara, Kobayashi, Koga, Kuranaga, Masui, Matsumoto, Matsumura, Mayeda, Mayekawa, Miyata, Miyazaki, Murakami, Murakawa, Nagano, Naito, Nakamura, Nakayama, Masakazu, Niino, Oda, Oda, Okamura, Ono, Oyanagi, Ozawa, Sasaki, Sasano, Sato, Seki, Shima, Shinomoto, Soyama, Sugimura, Tahara, Tajiri, Takahashi, Tanaka, Tashiro, Teraji, Togasaki, Tsuneta, Umino, Uyeda, Yamaguchi, Yamamoto, Yamanaka, Yamashita, Yasumatsu, Yumen.

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Poston, Arizona Block 306

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Softcover $28 (incl S & H)
Hardcover $40 (incl S & H)

Block 306 index of families:
Akahoshi, Akita, Amino, Ashida, Chikasawa, Enoki, Ezaki, Fujinami, Furuta, Hamamoto, Harada, Hayakawa, Ihara, Ikemoto, Ikuta, Ishii, Ishijima, Iwaihara, Izumi, Kaku, Kaneichi, Kawashige, Kodama, Kuroda, Kurokawa, Kusayanagi, Kuwada, Maruyama, Matsumoto, Matsuoka, Matsushita, Mitsuoka, Miyashita, Mizuno, Nagai, Nagano, Nagata, Nakamura, Nakano, Narimatsu, Natsume, Nishimoto, Nishimura, Nishioka, Niwa, Oda, Ogata, Okuyama, Onchi, Osaki, Ozawa, Sakai, Sakaji, Sakamoto, Shimada, Shinpo, Shintani, Shiraishi, Sujishi, Takahashi, Takemoto, Taku, Tanaka, Tanase, Tanigawa, Taniguchi, Tanisaki, Tanouye, Terakawa, Terasaki, Tokudomi, Tosono, Toyama, Tsuneta, Uyeda, Uyeki, Wadamoto, Wakita, Watanabe, Yamada, Yamagata, Yamamoto, Yanagita, Yemoto, Yokota, Yoneda, Yonezawa

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Poston Arizona Block 305

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Poston, Arizona Block 305 book  pre-sale orders only.

Softcover $28 (incl S & H)

Hardcover $40 (incl S & H)

Poston block 305 last names:

Abe, Araki, Asaida, Asami, Fujisaki, Fukuba, Goromaru, Hamachi, Hanada, Hasama, Hashimoto, Hayakawa, Higashida, Hiramatsu, Horibe, Ikeda, Ikemura, Ishida, Kaga, Kageyama, Kajikawa, Kajioka, Kashima, Katayama, Kawahara, Kishi, Kitauchi, Kiyomoto, Kobayashi, Kodama, Koike, Kunisada, Kunishige, Kurihara, Mayeda, Miyamoto, Mori, Morioka, Nagata, Nagatoshi, Nakata, Nakatsu, Niioka, Nishimura, Oda, Okada, Okamura, Osato, Ota, Saita, Saito, Sato, Shinoda, Suyeda, Suzuki, Tahara, Taira, Tanaka, Tashiro, Tateichi, Tateiwa, Terada, Teranishi, Uchida, Wumino, Yamada, Yamamoto, Yokota, Yoshida, Yoshii, Yoshimura.

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Recent artifact donations

"Poston Camp Pictures"

16 mm film of Miss Martha Hayes (high school teacher)

 Donated by the estate of Charles Y. Taguchi (326-12-B), 

of Reedley, CA.

Poston Red Cross Book 2nd year.

Donated by the estate of Norman K. Oda (307-2-D), 

formerly from Dinuba, CA.

 Poston Red Cross Booklet 1st year.

Donated by the estate of Norman K. Oda (307-2-D), 

formerly from Dinuba, CA.

 Parker Valley High School 1945 "Campus Echoes" Yearbook 

(Poston camp 3 high school)

Donated by the estate of Norman K. Oda (307-2-D), 

formerly from Dinuba, CA.

 Mohaveland (YBA camp 3 directory)

Donated by the estate of Norman K. Oda (307-2-D), 

formerly from Dinuba, CA.

  Poston 1 Reunion t-shirt souvenir 1997

Donated by Cherry (Nakamura) Hide (42-1-BC), 
formerly from El Centro, CA.

(Close-up of the logo on the front of the t-shirt)

 ( Design on the back of the t-shirt)

  Poston Memorial Monument Dedication Booklet

(Official Program)

October 6, 1992

 Donated by Cherry (Nakamura) Hide (42-1-BC), 
formerly from El Centro, CA.

Poston Memorial Monument Kiosk Dedication

(Official Program)

November 7, 1995

 Donated by Cherry (Nakamura) Hide (42-1-BC), 
formerly from El Centro, CA.

 Poston I Reunion IV program booklet
October 24-26, 1997

Locations: Torrance Marriott Hotel, Gold River Resort & Casino, 

Laughlin, NV, and the Poston Memorial Monument site

 Donated by Cherry (Nakamura) Hide (42-1-BC), 
formerly from El Centro, CA.

                    (Several of the birds were 'camera shy', 

so only the brave ones are shown here.)

Handpainted wood bird/butterfly/fish collection
 

  Poston Camp 1 High School Yearbook
"Post-Ano" 1945

 Donated by Cherry (Nakamura) Hide (42-1-BC), 
formerly from El Centro, CA.

FY2013 Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Awards

Unfortunately, the Poston Community Alliance was NOT selected for a National Park Service (Fiscal Year 2013) grant funding for development of a "Master Plan" for our project site located at the Poston I elementary school. 

With the donated funds from our Poston memorial brick project, we hope to develop our own process for a "Master Plan" with a preservation planner and architect. 

Help us spread this message. Your donations are tax-deductible.

To see our progress with the Poston memorial brick project, click on the "BRICK CAMPAIGN" link on the left side under "OUR OTHER SITES". 

UPDATE: Summer 2013 REVISED: 7/8/13

Poston Community Alliance

Poston Memorial Monument Committee

Photos from a recent Poston Community Alliance board meeting held in Lafayette, California, and courtesy of Dianne Kiyomoto


During World War II, of the 110,000 interned Japanese Americans, nearly 18, 000
were incarcerated in the Poston concentration camp on the Colorado River Indian Tribes (C.R.I.T.) Reservation in Arizona.  The Poston Memorial Monument was built in 1992 through the efforts of a determined and passionate group of detainees with support from the C.R.I.T.

The mission of the Poston Community Alliance is to create a foundation for educating the public about what took place at Poston, Arizona during World 
War II.  
     
The Poston Community Alliance is on a MAJOR fundraising campaign to restore Poston's remaining historic structures to create a museum.  This museum will tell the stories of Japanese Americans and Native Americans who shared the surrounding land. 

                                               sample of personalized brick inscriptions
  
For $100 donation or more, you can purchase a 4" x 8" brick with a personalized inscription (name of former Poston detainee, donor's name or other wording of your choice).
 
A limited number of "ELITE" sponsorship levels are available. 
If you are interested in this option, please contact: diannerd79(at)yahoo(dot) com 

Bricks will be placed in the available space at the Poston Memorial Monument and kiosk site.
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Make checks payable to: Poston Community Alliance
Mail to:
Poston Community Alliance/Brick Campaign
630 E. Quincy
Fresno, CA  93720
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Brick sponsor's name: _______________________________

Address_______________________________________

City/State/Zip___________________________________

email:_________________________________________

phone: _______________________________________


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