Hisaye Yamamoto Interview Segment 1
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ddr-densho-1002-10-1 (Legacy UID: denshovh-yhisaye-01-0001)
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Family background; growing up in Redondo Beach, California
This interview was conducted by sisters Emiko and Chizuko Omori for their 1999 documentary, Rabbit in the Moon, about the Japanese American resisters of conscience in the World War II incarceration camps. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead primarily focusing on issues surrounding the resistance movement itself.
00:03:38 — Segment 1 of 17
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Emiko and Chizuko Omori Collection
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INTERVIEW TITLE
Hisaye Yamamoto Interview
01:21:34 — 17 segments
DATE
March 21, 1994
LOCATION
San Francisco, California
DESCRIPTION
Nisei female. Born August 23, 1921, in Redondo Beach, California. Raised in California before mass removal to Parker Dam Assembly Center, Arizona, which was later converted into Poston concentration camp. An aspiring writer, worked for the camp newspaper, the Poston Chronicle, while incarcerated. After leaving camp, returned to California and worked for the Los Angeles Tribune. In 1988, published a book titled Seventeen Syllables and other stories. Hisaye received an American Book Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Before Columbus Foundation, and several of her short stories were adapted into a PBS film, "Hot Summer Winds."
(This interview was conducted by sisters Emiko and Chizuko Omori for their 1999 documentary, Rabbit in the Moon, about the Japanese American resisters of conscience in the World War II incarceration camps. As a result, the interviews in this collection are typically not life histories, instead primarily focusing on issues surrounding the resistance movement itself.)
PRODUCTION
Chizu Omori, interviewer; Emiko Omori, interviewer; Emiko Omori and Witt Mons, videographer
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CONTRIBUTOR
Emiko and Chizuko Omori Collection
PREFERRED CITATION
Courtesy of Emiko and Chizuko Omori
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.