Yoneko Watanabe Okamoto Interview Segment 1

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Childhood memories of Hollywood, California

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August 27, 1994

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Yoneko Watanabe Okamoto

Yoneko Watanabe Okamoto Interview

0:25:42 — 7 segments

August 27, 1994

Medford, New Jersey

Nisei female. Born 1918 in Tokyo, Japan. Immigrated to the U.S. with parents at age five, and grew up in Hollywood, California. During World War II, incarcerated at the Pomona assembly center, California, and the Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming. Left camp to resettle in Philadelphia, California.

Herbert J. Horikawa, interviewer

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