World War II
Cristoforo and Matsuda had two small children. Cristoforo was pregnant with her third when the family was sent to a Japanese American internment camp near Fresno. There she gave birth to her third child on a makeshift table made of orange crates. She was forcibly separated from her husband, and they were sent to separate internment centers. She spent the rest of World War II being moved between two more detention camps in Jerome, Arkansas and Tule Lake, California. She and her children were finally released from custody at the end of World War II.
Her time in the internment camps left a lasting imprint on Cristoforo's writings. Much of the original haiku that were written during her years in the camps has been lost or destroyed. However, her remaining writings and later works reflected the desolation and despair that she felt in there.
Read more about this topic: Violet Kazue De Cristoforo
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