Hiroshi Uyehara Interview Segment 11
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JACL Philadelphia
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SEGMENT ID
ddr-phljacl-1-13-11 ()
SEGMENT DESCRIPTION
Attending Japanese language school as a child
0:01:40 — Segment 11 of 14
PARENT COLLECTION
JACL Philadelphia Oral History Collection
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CONTRIBUTOR
Densho
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Courtesy of JACL Philadelphia
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JACL Philadelphia
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INTERVIEW ID
ddr-phljacl-1-13
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INTERVIEW TITLE
Hiroshi Uyehara Interview
0:31:36 — 14 segments
DATE
October 23, 1994
LOCATION
Medford, New Jersey
DESCRIPTION
Nisei male. Born January 1, 1916, in Oakland, California. Grew up in the Los Angeles area where father started a fish cake factory. Attended UCLA and UC Berkeley and then worked as an electrical draftsman for the Department of Water and Power for the City of Los Angeles. After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, discharged from civil service job. Removed to the Santa Anita Assembly Center, California, and the Rohwer concentration camp, Arkansas. Left camp and moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and established a career with the Westinghouse Electric Corporation in Lester, Pennsylvania.
PRODUCTION
Herbert J. Horikawa, interviewer
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CONTRIBUTOR
JACL Philadelphia
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Courtesy of JACL Philadelphia
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.