Kenji Maruko Interview Segment 19
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First impressions of Jerome: "what a forsaken place"
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00:04:32 — Segment 19 of 28
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Preserving California's Japantowns Collection
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INTERVIEW TITLE
Kenji Maruko Interview
02:04:13 — 28 segments
DATE
March 9, 2010
LOCATION
Fresno, California
DESCRIPTION
Sansei male. Born December 13, 1920, in Fresno, California. Father was born in Hawaii, mother was born in Japan. Grew up in Fresno, where parents ran a successful bicycle shop and general store. During World War II, removed to the Fresno Assembly Center, California, and the Jerome concentration camp, Arkansas. Signed "no-no" on the so-called "loyalty questions" and was segregated to the Tule Lake concentration camp, California. Renounced U.S. citizenship, and was transferred to the Department of Justice camp at Santa Fe, New Mexico. Decided to remain in the U.S., and had citizenship restored. After the war, returned to Fresno.
(This material is based upon work assisted by a grant from the Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Any opinions, finding, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of the Interior.)
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Jill Shiraki, interviewer; Tom Ikeda, interviewer; Dana Hoshide, videographer
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Preserving California's Japantowns Collection
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Courtesy of the Preserving California's Japantowns Collection
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.