
An Oral History
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conducted by high school students.
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Bess K. Chin – born in Alameda, California, interned at Heart Mountain, Wyoming, worked as a teacher’s assistant in the camps |
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Hiroshi Kashiwagi – Held in Tule Lake as a so-called "no-no boy" resister of the loyalty oath, now an author and member of the Screen Actors' Guild |
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Janet Daijogo – born in San Francisco, interned at Topaz at age five, teaches kindergarten in Corte Madera, California |
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Masaru Kawaguchi – High school basketball player forced to leave his school, team, and home for Topaz, Utah where he was interned for two years |
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Fumi Hayashi – Deported from Berkeley, California and interned as a high school student at the Topaz relocation camp in 1942 |
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Rose Nieda – Uprooted from her home in Washington at age nineteen, sent to Pinedale Assembly Center and then on to Tule Lake internment camp |
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Chizu Iiyama – raised in Francisco's Chinatown, transfered to Santa Anitaw here she lived for six months in a horse stall afterwhich she was sent to Topaz
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Marvin Uratsu – Born in Sacramento but raised in Japan - sent to Tule Lake and later returned to Japan with the U.S. MIS
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Ernie Iiyama – born in Oakland, CA in 1912, sent to Topaz where he was an active leader in the Nisei Young Democrats
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Sato Hashizume – born in Portland, Oregon, send to Minodoka internment camp in Idaho as a 10 year old
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Paul Ohtaki – born on Bainbridge Island, Washington, sent to Manzanar in California, among the first families in the country to be interned |
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Teacher Workshop: 5-day intensive
Telling Their Stories: Producing Web-Based Digital Video Oral Histories
July 27-31, 2008 |