| Title |
"Sox" Tsuyako Kitashima, San Francisco, California, tape no. 25: an interview by Sandra Taylor, November 6, 1987 |
| Creator |
Kitashima, Sox (Tsuyako) |
| Contributor |
Taylor, Sandra C. |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
1987-11-06 |
| Date Digital |
2014-03-25 |
| Access Rights |
I acknowledge and agree that all information I obtain as a result of accessing any oral history provided by the University of Utah's Marriott Library shall be used only for historical or scholarly or academic research purposes, and not for commercial purposes. I understand that any other use of the materials is not authorized by the University of Utah and may exceed the scope of permission granted to the University of Utah by the interviewer or interviewee. I may request permission for other uses, in writing to Special Collections at the Marriott Library, which the University of Utah may choose grant, in its sole discretion. I agree to defend, indemnify and hold the University of Utah and its Marriott Library harmless for and against any actions or claims that relate to my improper use of materials provided by the University of Utah. |
| Temporal Coverage |
November 6, 1987 |
| Spatial Coverage |
San Mateo, San Mateo County, California, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5392423/ ; San Bruno, San Mateo County, California, http://sws.geonames.org/5391749/ ; Topaz Camp, Millard County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5548582/ ; San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5391959/ |
| Subject |
Japanese Americans--California--Interviews; Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945; Central Utah Relocation Center; Tanforan Assembly Center (San Bruno, Calif.) |
| Description |
Typescript (32 pages), the transcript of an interview by Sandra C. Taylor with Tsuyako ("Sox") Kitashima, a Japanese-American living in San Francisco, California. Interview took place on November 6, 1987, on behalf of the American West Center at the University of Utah |
| Collection Number and Name |
1002; Topaz Oral Histories |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Relation |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv97265 |
| Scanning Technician |
Matt Wilkinson |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro 9 for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s68p7gmd |
| Topic |
Japanese Americans; Evacuation and relocation of Japanese Americans (United States : 1942-1945); Central Utah Relocation Center; Tanforan Assembly Center (San Bruno, Calif.) |
| Relation is Part of |
Mitsugi M. Kasai Memorial Japanese American Archive |
| Setname |
uum_toh |
| ID |
1044195 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s68p7gmd |
| Title |
Page 9 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_toh |
| ID |
1044168 |
| OCR Text |
Show "SOX" KITASHIMA SK: But it became very frightening. On the day we heard about Pearl Harbor, my mother, my sister and I were in a car, and suddenly on the car radio we heard about it. We just gasped. My mother said, "Oh, this is terrible." I guess, she started thinking what was going to happen to her because she is an alien. Everyday, we lived in fear, not knowing what was going to happen to us until they started to post signs on the telephone poles telling us we have to evacuate. We had some families approach us and asked us if we would join them in going into farming in Colorado or Utah on a voluntary basis, but not knowing our future, my brother did not want to take that risk. ST: Yeah, you never know. SK: Of course, I thought that we would be coming home by Christmas. I do not know what made me think that. I took it very lightly. We were sent to Tanforan. Living in a horse stall was the grim period of my life. ST: Yeah, were you in one of the horse stalls? SK: I was in a horse stall. Right above our stall was a guard. You know, I never knew too much about Tanforan. I knew it was a race track, but I did not know what it was really like until I got there. And 6 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s68p7gmd/1044168 |
