Eleanor and Emil Sekerak Oral History Interview

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Title Eleanor and Emil Sekerak Oral History Interview
Creator Sekerak; Eleanor; Sekerak, Emil; Verdoia, Ken
Publisher Utah Historical Society
Date 1987
Access Rights Utah Historical Society
Date Digital 2024-11-29
Spatial Coverage Castro Valley, Alameda County, California, United States https://www.geonames.org/5334928/castro-valley.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; Cooperative stores; Internment camps; Married people; Teachers; World War II; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives; Castro Valley (Calif.); Delta (Utah); Millard County (Utah); Topaz (Utah); Topaz Relocation Center (Topaz, Utah)
Description Oral History Interview by Ken Verdoia with Eleanor and Emil Sekerak. This married couple met while at Topaz, she serving as a high school teacher and he as a manager of the cooperative store and as a relocation expeditor. They were part of the group of caucasian workers at Topaz who chose to work in the relocation program.
Collection Number and Name MSS B 125 KUED Topaz (Utah) Residents Interviews
Type Text
Genre oral histories (literary genre)
Format application/pdf
Extent 42 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/s6xx268j
Setname dha_uhsoh
ID 2592537
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6xx268j
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