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A construction worker discovers a black satchel full of personal papers from a well-known Fife vegetable farmer during World War II. The rare find spotlights Japanese Americans’ life in camps.
No. 11689. Kikuko Dorothy Fujita Morita recognized the number on the yellowed tag attached to the black leather satchel. Decades of dust etched its skin.
“That was our family number,” she said quietly.
Marked in pen on the satchel, the enrollment number was assigned to the Fujita family of Fife when it was interned along with some 120,000 other Japanese and Japanese Americans on the West Coast after Pearl Harbor.
No. 11689. Kikuko Dorothy Fujita Morita recognized the number on the yellowed tag attached to the black leather satchel. Decades of dust etched its skin.
“That was our family number,” she said quietly.
Marked in pen on the satchel, the enrollment number was assigned to the Fujita family of Fife when it was interned along with some 120,000 other Japanese and Japanese Americans on the West Coast after Pearl Harbor.
