Venice Knight Oral History Interview

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Title Venice Knight Oral History Interview
Creator Knight, Venice; Casto, Colleen
Publisher Utah Historical Society
Date 1987
Access Rights Utah Historical Society
Date Digital 2024-12-02
Spatial Coverage City of Delta, Millard County, Utah, United States https://www.geonames.org/11788706/city-of-delta.html Topaz War Relocation Center, Millard County, Utah, United States https://www.geonames.org/5548582/topaz-war-relocation-center.html
Subject Central Utah Relocation Project; Internment camps; Japanese Americans; Race discrimination; Telephone switchboards; World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives; Delta (Utah); Millard County (Utah); Topaz (Utah); Topaz Relocation Center (Topaz, Utah)
Description Oral History Interview by Colleen Casto with Venice Knight. Mrs. Knight served as the Topaz camp switchboard operator during the years of the camp's operation. She assisted many ethnic Japanese in contacting family members who were held in different locations.
Collection Number and Name MSS B 125 KUED Topaz (Utah) Residents Interviews
Type Text
Genre oral histories (literary genre)
Format application/pdf
Extent 14 leaves
Language eng
Rights
Source Mss B 125 KUED Topaz (Utah) Residents Interviews
Scanning Technician Michelle Gollehon
Metadata Cataloger Amy Green Larsen
ARK ark:/87278/s69211a2
Setname dha_uhsoh
ID 2592548
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s69211a2