Interview with Gary and Grace Itano, part 2 of 6
PARTNER
Densho
Visit partner
OBJECT ID
ddr-densho-1007-1806
PARENT COLLECTION
Loni Ding Oral History and Film Research Collection
DESCRIPTION
Grace discusses working with her husband-to-be before the war, her husband asking for a divorce (knowing that he would be imprisoned for refusing to serve), her husband Henry's reasons for refusing to serve, her husband's family preventing him from going to college, trying and failing to live outside of camp in Arizona, evacuation and closing her sister's grocery store, being born in Seattle, spending time in Japan as a child, returning to Seattle at age 16, moving to Los Angeles, having four children, and telling her children about her husband's experiences during the war. Gary discusses learning about his father's life during the war and his role in the DB Boys. Interview starts at 0:59. Loni Ding can be heard asking questions behind the camera. Original title: II RES/PRO #17, UCLA Grace Itano, Gary Itano, 6/1/86, Roll 17. Interview continues at ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-1007-1807/
00:22:32
DATE
June 1, 1986
LOCATION
OBJECT GENRE
Interviews
OBJECT FORMAT
Audio/Visual
TOPICS
- Arts and literature -- Performing arts -- Film -- Documentaries
- World War II -- Military service
- World War II -- Resistance and dissidence -- Draft resistance
- World War II -- Mass removal ("evacuation")
- World War II -- Concentration camps
- Geographic communities -- Washington -- Seattle
- Geographic communities -- California -- Los Angeles
FACILITY
CREATORS
- Ding, Loni (interviewer)
- Itano, Gary (Interviewee)
- Itano, Grace (interviewee)
PERSONS/ORGANIZATIONS
CONTRIBUTOR
Densho
PREFERRED CITATION
Courtesy of David Welsh, The Center for Educational Telecommunications (CET)
RIGHTS
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.