Transcripts, 2008

File — Box: 1, Folder: 1

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

This folder contains a bound volume of interview transcripts:

(1) Norman I. Hirose talks about his family background; living in Berkeley, California; Pearl Harbor; selling household items in preparation for mass removal; Tanforan; Topaz camp layout and activities; Santa Fe Department of Justice internment camp; moving to Japan after the war. (56 pages)
(2) Ted Nagata recalls living in Berkeley, California; Tanforan assembly center; Topaz experience; living in "Japantown" in Salt Lake City after the war. (21 pages)
(3) Nelson Takeo Akagi describes his family; farming in California; the sale of the farm after Pearl Harbor; working on a sugar beet farm in Idaho; his service in the 522nd Field Artillery Battalion; life after the war. (42 pages)
(4) Jun Kurumada talks about his family background; growing up in Utah; Japanese-Americans and the Mormon Church; formation of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL); military service in occupied Japan. (39 pages)
(5)Helen Harano Christ describes her family background and recalls life in pre-war Berkeley, California; Tanforan assembly center; life in Topaz; moving to North Platte, Nebraska; meeting her husband and issues of an interracial marriage; teaching. (28 pages)
(6) Alice Setsuko Sekino Hirai describes her family background; life in San Francisco, California; camp life; living in Salt Lake City, Utah, after the war; education and marriage; work with handicapped children. (27 pages)
(7) Bob Utsumi recalls his childhood in Oakland, California; results of the news of Pearl Harbor; Tanforan; life in Topaz; returning to Oakland after the war; attending UC Berkeley; service in the Air Force in England and Vietnam. (37 pages)
(8) Chiyoko Yano describes her childhood in Japan and Oakland, California; life in Topaz; marriage and child-rearing in Topaz; returning to Berkeley after the war. (36 pages)
(9) Grace Oshita describes her parents and their immigration to the United States; childhood in San Francisco; her father being picked up by the FBI; Tanforan; Topaz; living in Salt Lake City after the war; marriage and children; redress. (33 pages)

Dates

2008

Language of Materials

From the Collection: Collection materials are in English.

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