Preliminary Release...
An Oral History
Archives Project of
Read, watch and listen
to interviews of Japanese American Internment Camp Internees conducted by
high school students.
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Janet Daijogo – Native of San Francisco, interned at Topaz from age five to eight years old, currently teaches kindergarten in Corte Madera, California |
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Bess K. Chin – Born in Alameda, California, interned at Heart Mountain, Wyoming and worked as a teacher’s assistant in the camps |
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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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Hiroshi Kashiwagi – Held in Tule Lake as a so-called "No-No boy" resister of the loyalty oath, now an author and actor |
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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 |