Faith Terasawa Oral History Interview

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Title Faith Terasawa Oral History Interview
Creator Terasawa, Faith; Verdoia, Ken
Publisher Utah Historical Society
Date 1987
Access Rights Utah Historical Society
Date Digital 2024-11-29
Spatial Coverage City of San Bruno, San Mateo County, California, United States https://www.geonames.org/11788664/city-of-san-bruno.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 American college students; Japanese Americans; Race discrimination; Social welfare; Teachers; University of California at Berkeley; World War, 1939-1945 -- Japanese Americans; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives; Delta (Utah); Millard County (Utah); Topaz (Utah); Tanforan Assembly Center (San Bruno, Calif.); Topaz Relocation Center (Topaz, Utah)
Description Oral History Interview by Ken Verdoia with Faith Terasawa. The aunt of Donald Nakhata, Mrs. Terasawa was one of the first ethnic Japanese women to be admitted to and graduate from the University of California, Berkeley. During relocation she taught English to other ethnic Japanese in both the Tanforan and Topaz camps, as well as working in the camp's equivalent of a social welfare unit.
Collection Number and Name MSS B 125 KUED Topaz (Utah) Residents Interviews
Type Text
Genre oral histories (literary genre)
Format application/pdf
Extent 24 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/s6e19m4b
Setname dha_uhsoh
ID 2592540
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6e19m4b
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