Chiyo Koiwai Interview Segment 1
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JACL Philadelphia
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SEGMENT ID
ddr-phljacl-1-10-1 ()
SEGMENT DESCRIPTION
Description of children
0:03:28 — Segment 1 of 7
PARENT COLLECTION
JACL Philadelphia Oral History Collection
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FACILITY
PERSONS/ORGANIZATIONS
CONTRIBUTOR
JACL Philadelphia
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Courtesy of JACL Philadelphia
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PARTNER
JACL Philadelphia
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INTERVIEW ID
ddr-phljacl-1-10
NARRATOR
INTERVIEW TITLE
Chiyo Koiwai Interview
0:32:26 — 7 segments
DATE
August 27, 1994
LOCATION
Medford, New Jersey
DESCRIPTION
Nisei female. Born June 11, 1919, in Tacoma, Washington. Grew up in Tacoma where family ran a hotel. Was studying to be a nurse when World War II broke out, so lobbied to be sent to the Puyallup Assembly Center, separate from parents, in order to stay in Washington state to finish training. After Puyallup, sent to the Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho. After leaving camp, lived and worked in St. Louis, Missouri, before eventually settling in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
PRODUCTION
Herbert J. Horikawa, interviewer
TOPICS
FACILITY
PERSONS/ORGANIZATIONS
CONTRIBUTOR
JACL Philadelphia
PREFERRED CITATION
Courtesy of JACL Philadelphia
RIGHTS
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.