| 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 134 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_ijau |
| ID |
897956 |
| OCR Text |
Show ORr Grace Oshita 5-30-85 sl:ll more of confinement. You know, the feeling batyou were arrested for some reason. Youwere put into camps for some reason.Youknow. But not knowing what. Ah, I'm sure with each person theremst have been some guilty feeling. Um. Ohh. I don't know, it's hard to explain LK You're doingok. GO Or the feeling of why we were there. And not knowing why you were there. I wonder what th~government thin-g-k-s- ---- of me. Or - oh, why can't they trust us. You know, as a youngerperson, I probably thougt- that. I don't think -well, yest there msut have been some anger- angry feelins. Especially when my father and I were separated. If~ couldhave beentogether and evacuated, it wouldhave been alot easier. You know, and maybe the - the worst fear might have been to - the - sent to Japan, for instance, with my father. If he were told to or - LK You meanif he were forcibly repatriated. GO Tht's right. LK Did you thinkthatmight happen? GO Yes, we did. Becuase - ah, we promised our - my Dad that whatever we - wherever he went, we would follow him. Itmight have been to Japan. It might have been to a family in German camp. becuase they did have one family internment camp in Crystal City, Texas. Where some - a few of the families got together. I felt really sorry for a woman who was interned. Ah, she was a schoolteacher and I don't know why she was - ah - well, she was oneof the very few women, |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6j4099m/897956 |
