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vh Frances Ota Interview Segment 6 (ddr-one-7-13-6)

Joining the military in the medical corps

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vh Frances Ota Interview Segment 13 (ddr-one-7-13-13)

Serving in the military

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vh Frances Ota Interview Segment 16 (ddr-one-7-13-16)

Relationship with benefactors

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vh Frances Ota Interview Segment 1 (ddr-one-7-13-1)

Prewar memories: going to Japan for a few years before World War II

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vh Frances Ota Interview Segment 7 (ddr-one-7-13-7)

Remembering a disastrous flood

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vh Frances Ota Interview Segment 11 (ddr-one-7-13-11)

Raising a family

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vh Frances Ota Interview Segment 8 (ddr-one-7-13-8)

Family's experiences in Japan during the war

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vh Frances Ota Interview Segment 9 (ddr-one-7-13-9)

Values emphasized by parents

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vh Frances Ota Interview Segment 3 (ddr-one-7-13-3)

Removed to the Portland Assembly Center with sister

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vh Frances Ota Interview Segment 2 (ddr-one-7-13-2)

Returning to the U.S. as a sixteen-year-old with the help of a benefactor

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vh Frances Ota Interview Segment 4 (ddr-one-7-13-4)

Immediately leaving assembly center to live and work at a farm labor camp

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vh Frances Ota Interview Segment 14 (ddr-one-7-13-14)

Family's experiences in Japan

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Narrator Frances Ota

Nisei female. Born January 22, 1923, in Wilsonville, Oregon. Taken to Japan to live with family for a few years before the outbreak of World War II. Returned alone to Oregon to join sister at age sixteen with the help of a white benefactor. Removed to the Portland Assembly Center, Oregon, but then left immediately to …

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img Class photo of nursery school at Minidoka (ddr-densho-543-7)

Written on back: August 1943 Nursery school in Hunt Idaho. Teachers Miss Takahashi / Miss Ota / Miss Tanaka / Mrs. Hanamura / Eddie Masaru Hirota, Norma Kayoko Hirota. Dickie Yoshihiro Hirota

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doc Christmas Card to Yuri Domoto from Mr. & Mrs. James Ota (ddr-densho-356-306)

Christmas card to Yuriko Domoto Tsukada from Mr. & Mrs. James T. Ota. Item tied together with all objects between ddr-densho-356-277 and ddr-densho-356-320.

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img Five adults and a child in open touring car (ddr-ajah-6-958)

Caption below photo: Seated at right are Sadaichi "Sam" Ota and his wife, Asano, of the Morgan Hill/San Jose area of California. They are Lee Ota's parents. Lee would marry Saitaro "Cy" Towata of Alameda, CA. Born in 1876, Sadaichi was a gardener and died in 1967. Asano was born in 1891 and died in 1973. …

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doc Japanese American Courier Vol. 1, No. 33 (August 11, 1928) (ddr-densho-96-61)

Selected article titles: "U.S. Recognition of China May Force Nations Into Line" (p. 1), "Sport Scope" (p. 2), "Pink Tea" (p. 3), "Japan Fascinates Says Rae Ota" (p. 4)

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