307 items
307 items
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Cedrick M. Shimo Interview (ddr-densho-1000-260)
Nisei male. Born October 1, 1919, in Heber, California, in the Imperial Valley. Grew up in Boyle Heights. Received draft notice one day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and joined the Military Intelligence Service. After being denied furlough to visit his mother in Manzanar concentration camp, refused to serve overseas with his unit. Was placed …
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June M. Hoshida Honma Interview (ddr-densho-1000-256)
Nisei female. Born June 23, 1936, in Hilo, Hawaii. After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, father was picked up by the FBI and detained at Sand Island internment camp, Hawaii. The rest of the family was removed to the Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas, to be reunited with him. After Jerome closed, transferred to …
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Hatsuko Mary Higuchi Interview (ddr-densho-1000-456)
Nisei female. Born January 31, 1939, in Los Angeles County, California. At a young age, removed to the Poston concentration camp, Arizona, with family. After leaving camp, returned to family's farm in Lawndale, California. Father passed away early, leaving her mother to run the farm. Hatsuko Mary became a teacher, establishing an education career in Torrance, …
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Douglas L. Aihara Interview (ddr-densho-1000-522)
Sansei male. Born March 15, 1950, in Torrance, California. Grew up in the Los Angeles area, where father sold insurance. Active with Los Angeles' Koyasan Buddhist Temple's Boy Scout troop and performed with its drum and bugle corps. Attended UCLA and joined the staff of Gidra, an Asian American monthly newspaper-magazine started by a group of …
Narrator Tak Yamashita
Nisei male. Born December 22, 1917, in Torrance, California. Grew up in the Los Angeles area where parents ran a farm. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, family decided to "voluntarily evacuate" to Colorado in order to avoid mass removal. Farmed in Colorado during the war years, and returned to Los Angeles in 1945.
Narrator Iku Kiriyama
Sansei female. Born November 12, 1939, in Los Angeles, California. During World War II, removed as a small child to the Manzanar concentration camp, California. After leaving camp, returned to California with family, where parents established a nursery business in Torrance, California. Graduated from the University of Southern California, and worked as a teacher. Integral in …
Narrator Douglas L. Aihara
Sansei male. Born March 15, 1950, in Torrance, California. Grew up in the Los Angeles area, where father sold insurance. Active with Los Angeles' Koyasan Buddhist Temple's Boy Scout troop and performed with its drum and bugle corps. Attended UCLA and joined the staff of Gidra, an Asian American monthly newspaper-magazine started by a group of …
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George Sakaye Nakano Interview (ddr-densho-400-17)
George Sakaye Nakano was born on November 24, 1935, in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. George's parents were Kibei, born in Hawaii, then educated in Japan before returning to the U.S. Nakano grew up in Los Angeles until he was six years old. When WWII started, the Nakano family was incarcerated in the …
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Alice Uyeda Interview (ddr-densho-400-23)
Alice Uyeda was born on February 19, 1920, in Baldwin Park, California. Alice was the youngest of three children to Buhei and Sawaye Ito. Her father was a truck farmer in Baldwin Park. On December 7, 1941, when World War II broke out, Alice was working in Glendale, California. She and her family went to Utah …
Narrator Hatsuko Mary Higuchi
Nisei female. Born January 31, 1939, in Los Angeles County, California. At a young age, removed to the Poston concentration camp, Arizona, with family. After leaving camp, returned to family's farm in Lawndale, California. Father passed away early, leaving her mother to run the farm. Hatsuko Mary became a teacher, establishing an education career in Torrance, …
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Tak Yamashita Interview (ddr-densho-1000-365)
Nisei male. Born December 22, 1917, in Torrance, California. Grew up in the Los Angeles area where parents ran a farm. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, family decided to "voluntarily evacuate" to Colorado in order to avoid mass removal. Farmed in Colorado during the war years, and returned to Los Angeles in 1945.
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Chizuko Judy Sugita de Quieiroz Interview Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-252-6)
Realization that Japanese Americans were singled out for incarceration because of race
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Chizuko Judy Sugita de Quieiroz Interview Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-252-4)
Too young to remember hearing about the bombing of Pearl Harbor
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Chizuko Judy Sugita de Quieiroz Interview Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1000-252-7)
Turning to reading and art in camp
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Chizuko Judy Sugita de Quieiroz Interview Segment 1 (ddr-densho-1000-252-1)
Parents' family background
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Chizuko Judy Sugita de Quieiroz Interview Segment 15 (ddr-densho-1000-252-15)
Exhibiting art in Hiroshima, Japan
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Chizuko Judy Sugita de Quieiroz Interview Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-252-9)
Leaving camp and living in a hostel until parents could reestablish business
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Chizuko Judy Sugita de Quieiroz Interview Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1000-252-5)
Home ransacked by the FBI
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Chizuko Judy Sugita de Quieiroz Interview Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-252-11)
Teaching art in the public schools, fighting to avoid funding cuts
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Chizuko Judy Sugita de Quieiroz Interview Segment 12 (ddr-densho-1000-252-12)
Teaching, raising children, and doing art
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Chizuko Judy Sugita de Quieiroz Interview Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1000-252-8)
Growing up and maturing as a result of camp
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Chizuko Judy Sugita de Quieiroz Interview Segment 13 (ddr-densho-1000-252-13)
Retiring from teaching and pursuing art full-time
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Chizuko Judy Sugita de Quieiroz Interview Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-252-3)
Attending school, beginnings of ethnic identity
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Chizuko Judy Sugita de Quieiroz Interview Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-252-10)
Impact of incarceration on ethnic identity