| 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 128 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
897950 |
| OCR Text |
Show OHI Grace Oshita 5-30-85 s1:5 LK This was in the spring, !guess. GO I guess. LK Interesting. When you first got there, do youEmemberhow people reacted. Were they dissatisfied with being there - any people who acted out their unhappiness. GO There must have been. Ah. [sighs] I don't remember toomuch about the problems that they had, but there were some. I think there were still groups of people who were against the JACL leaders, for instance. Ah, there might have been, ah, the Kibei group who were unhappy about the treatment. Ah. Then, they · were perhaps more vocal against the Nisei - well they were Niseis also but the Kibei - Nisei were more vocal against theNisei in those days. LK Soyou pretty much oane you got in bere, you started to go to school. I imagine it probley took you most of the time. What didyour mother and grandother do. _ GO My mother was assistant to the block maanger who - oh, oversaw the comfort - the phsyical comfort of thepeople in his block. Forinstance, if somethingwent wrong or had plumbing problems, he would take care of, or have them taken careof. If someone needed lumber to perhaps - ah - divide their one room apprtment, he might have been able to - although most people just went to the lumber yard and helped themselves. I understand the security just turned their cheeks so they could -after all, nobody had anything. And - I'm sure that there wouldhave been more problemsif the Japanese Seucirty officer showed alot of authority. Then, I'm sure there would |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6j4099m/897950 |
