Yoneko Watanabe Okamoto Interview Segment 2
| Childhood memories of Hollywood, California (ddr-phljacl-1-7-1) - 0:02:49 |
| Hearing about Pearl Harbor and preparing for mass removal (ddr-phljacl-1-7-2) - 0:02:53 |
| Deciding to move to Philadelphia after leaving camp (ddr-phljacl-1-7-3) - 0:02:59 |
| First arriving in Philadelphia (ddr-phljacl-1-7-4) - 0:05:17 |
| Meeting future husband (ddr-phljacl-1-7-5) - 0:02:58 |
| Becoming a U.S. citizen (ddr-phljacl-1-7-6) - 0:04:23 |
| Reflections (ddr-phljacl-1-7-7) - 0:03:53 |
PARTNER
JACL Philadelphia
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SEGMENT ID
ddr-phljacl-1-7-2 ()
SEGMENT DESCRIPTION
Hearing about Pearl Harbor and preparing for mass removal
0:02:53 — Segment 2 of 7
PARENT COLLECTION
JACL Philadelphia Oral History Collection
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.
PARTNER
JACL Philadelphia
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INTERVIEW ID
ddr-phljacl-1-7
NARRATOR
INTERVIEW TITLE
Yoneko Watanabe Okamoto Interview
0:25:42 — 7 segments
DATE
August 27, 1994
LOCATION
Medford, New Jersey
DESCRIPTION
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.
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.