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Barbara Reiko Mikami Keimi Interview (ddr-densho-1000-459)
Sansei female. Born December 4, 1935, in Sawtelle, California. Grew up in Huntington Beach, California, where father worked as a chauffeur. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, father was picked up by the FBI and taken to the Tuna Canyon Detention Station. He rejoined the family at the Merced Assembly Center, California, and the family was …


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Barbara Reiko Mikami Keimi Segment 4 (ddr-densho-1000-459-4)
Memories of father being picked up by the FBI after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, visiting him at the Tuna Canyon Detention Station

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Barbara Reiko Mikami Keimi Segment 9 (ddr-densho-1000-459-9)
Leaving camp and returning to Los Angeles

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Barbara Reiko Mikami Keimi Segment 16 (ddr-densho-1000-459-16)
Reflections: not feeling fully accepted as an American

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Barbara Reiko Mikami Keimi Segment 8 (ddr-densho-1000-459-8)
Learning Japanese and English at Tule Lake to prepare for living in Japan

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Barbara Reiko Mikami Keimi Segment 6 (ddr-densho-1000-459-6)
A few memories of the Amache concentration camp

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Barbara Reiko Mikami Keimi Segment 12 (ddr-densho-1000-459-12)
Parents' work after the war: mother sewed piecework, father started a gardening business



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Barbara Reiko Mikami Keimi Segment 3 (ddr-densho-1000-459-3)
Early childhood memories before World War II

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Barbara Reiko Mikami Keimi Segment 15 (ddr-densho-1000-459-15)
Helping to organize camp pilgrimages and reunions, volunteer for the Japanese American National Museum

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Barbara Reiko Mikami Keimi Segment 10 (ddr-densho-1000-459-10)
Meeting ethnically diverse kids right after the war in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles

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Barbara Reiko Mikami Keimi Segment 7 (ddr-densho-1000-459-7)
Parents decide to go to Japan and were transferred to Tule Lake

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Barbara Reiko Mikami Keimi Segment 2 (ddr-densho-1000-459-2)
Father's job as a chauffeur for several families

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Barbara Reiko Mikami Keimi Segment 11 (ddr-densho-1000-459-11)
Grand Uncle's difficulties getting his prewar hotel back after the war

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Barbara Reiko Mikami Keimi Segment 5 (ddr-densho-1000-459-5)
A bad experience in a new elementary school, then being sent to the Merced Assembly Center

Narrator Barbara Reiko Mikami Keimi
Sansei female. Born December 4, 1935, in Sawtelle, California. Grew up in Huntington Beach, California, where father worked as a chauffeur. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, father was picked up by the FBI and taken to the Tuna Canyon Detention Station. He rejoined the family at the Merced Assembly Center, California, and the family was …