| Title |
Interviews with Japanese in Utah: Grace Oshita |
| Alternative Title |
Grace Oshita: interviews on February 20, 21 and 26, 1985, and May 22 and 30, 1985 |
| Creator |
Oshita, Grace Fujimoto, 1925- |
| Contributor |
Kelen, Leslie G., 1949- |
| Publisher |
Digitized by J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Date |
1985-02-20; 1985-02-21; 1985-02-26; 1985-05-22; 1985-05-30 |
| Date Digital |
2014-05-07 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5391959/ ; Topaz Camp, Millard County, Utah, United States, http://sws.geonames.org/5548582/ |
| Subject |
Oshita, Grace Fujimoto, 1925- --Interviews; Japanese Americans--Utah--Interviews; Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945; Central Utah Relocation Center |
| Description |
Transcript (typescript, 174 pages) of a series of interviews with Grace Oshita, a Japanese-American living in Utah in 1985. Mrs. Oshita (b. 1925) speaks of her early life in San Francisco, her father's business ventures, and the Japanese relocations of World War II. Her family was interned at the Topaz, Utah, relocation center |
| Type |
Text |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Relation |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv45901 |
| 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/s6j4099m |
| Topic |
Japanese Americans; Evacuation and relocation of Japanese Americans (United States : 1942-1945); Central Utah Relocation Center |
| Is Part of |
Aileen H. Clyde 20th Century Women's Legacy Archive |
| Relation is Part of |
Mitsugi M. Kasai Memorial Japanese American Archive |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
897992 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6j4099m |
| Title |
Page 97 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
897919 |
| OCR Text |
Show Grace Oshita 2-26-85 s5:26 L For the rest of JUr life, huh. (they both laygh) Sounds so impossible. GO Or the duration of the war, how ever long that might have been. Ohhh. I don't know. I don't know what I took. L Were you able to pack things up in enough time or wereyou very very rushed. GO Oh. I couldsay both ways but I don't know for sure. I think we had enough time. Yes, inour case, in the area where we lived, we were given enough time. There were rumours. The order was that the -- The Evacuation order was when in Febraury - so we knew it was going to happen. So we started soon after my Dad had gone. L You had how much time to put it al togehter. GO Three months. Some families insome areas only had a week. If they lived in a strategic area. I know some families even in San Francisco who 1 ived near the P cct.;;,6 . ~ for instance were evacuated just - Well, sadfAnita which is really long before L Right. GO Now your people from San Pedro, the fishermen out there, they hadn't very few days to prepare. People up in Bainbdrige Island, in Seattle, that was a strategic area and they had to evacuate. That was in a very short notice. A matter of a week or two. A very short time. But we had months atleast. L Do you ~member the approaching time, getting close to it, in your memory, getting close to it. GO Yes. I think my mother's mother - the othergrandmother being sick. And - and a neighbor boy being bitten by a dog. So, there was all |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6j4099m/897919 |
