Junko Mizuta Interview Segment 13
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ddr-chi-1-6-13 ()
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Children's limited exposure to the wartime incarceration history
0:02:58 — Segment 13 of 15
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Junko Mizuta Interview
1:31:21 — 15 segments
DATE
October 4, 2017
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Nisei female. Born 1925 in Portland, Oregon. Grew up in Portland, where parents ran a laundry business and managed an apartment house. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, father was arrested by the FBI, and the rest of the family was removed to the Portland Assembly Center, Oregon. While at the assembly center, Junko, a teenager, witnessed firsthand the shooting of a Japanese American cook by a camp guard. After leaving camp, went to school for a time in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, before moving to Chicago, Illinois.
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Anna Takada, interviewer
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Japanese American Service Committee (JASC) and Chicago Japanese American Historical Society (CJAHS)
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