Title:

Captain Yoshiye Togosaki talking to Major Eva Landaberg at the UNRRA Overseas Training Center at College Park, Maryland. They are about to leave for Italy as medical officers with UNRRA, Captain Togosaki assigned by the U.S. Public Health Service. She is one of six daughters all working in medicine. Four of them were evacuated from the West Coast under the Army Exclusion order of 1942 and all are now working in their chosen profession. Kazue, who was at Manzanar with Yoshiye, is a resident physician in obstetrics in a Chicago hospital; Chiye, also from Manzanar, is a nurse with the Chicago City Health Department; Yaye is a lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps working in a psychiatric hospital; Teru, from Colorado River, is a resident physician in the tuberculosis unit of a New York City hospital; Mitsuye is in Honolulu continuing her work as public health nurse. A brother, Susumu, who was also at Colorado River, is now living in Chicago. The elder Mr. Togoaski from Central Utah is in Salt Lake City with his wife, Sugi. -- Photographer: Van Tassel, Gretchen -- College Park, Maryland. 2/1/45

Contributing Institution:

The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley.