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Mary Hirata Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1000-22-8)
Memories of prewar Seattle: Alki Beach, walking to "Tip School"
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Mary Hirata Segment 15 (ddr-densho-1000-22-15)
Activities of the younger children in the Puyallup Assembly Center
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Mary Hirata Segment 23 (ddr-densho-1000-22-23)
Adjusting to life in Pocatello, Idaho, during the war
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Mary Hirata Segment 38 (ddr-densho-1000-22-38)
Message to future generations: "make sure it's never done again"
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Mary Hirata Segment 16 (ddr-densho-1000-22-16)
Impressions of Minidoka concentration camp: "My God, the dust!"
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Mary Hirata Segment 28 (ddr-densho-1000-22-28)
Working as a wall-washer, cocktail waitress, in postwar Seattle
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Mary Hirata Segment 30 (ddr-densho-1000-22-30)
Participating in Japanese American community organizations: Boy Scouts
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Mary Hirata Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-22-9)
Running a family-owned business in prewar Seattle; memories of things left behind during mass removal
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Mary Hirata Segment 14 (ddr-densho-1000-22-14)
Trying to pass the time in the Puyallup Assembly Center
Narrator Mary Hirata
'Nisei female. Born November 27, 1926, in Wenatchee, Washington. Grew up in Wenatchee and moved to Seattle with family in 1938. Incarcerated at the Puyallup Assembly Center, Washington, and Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. Resettled during World War II in Pocatello, Idaho. Returned to Seattle after World War II.
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Sweetheart Beauty Pageant winners (ddr-densho-10-5)
Finalists in the Minidoka concentration camp Sweetheart Beauty Pageant surround the winner. Left to right: Barbara Kurimura, Pauline Tamiyasu, Chizuko Hayashi, Kimi Takatsuka, Noble Kodama, Pearl Hirata, and Fumi Kinoshita. The Sweetheart Beauty Pageant began in the winter of 1943. The contest was designed to lighten the mood of the camp. Each block, or camp division, …
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Frank H. Hirata Interview Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-271-10)
Father reunites family in Japan because of impending war
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Frank H. Hirata Interview Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1000-271-8)
Catching up academically with students in Japan
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Frank H. Hirata Interview Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-271-6)
Initially resisting going to Japan with grandfather
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Frank H. Hirata Interview Segment 27 (ddr-densho-1000-271-27)
Feeling a strong connection to the Nisei community, despite Kibei background