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Description
Transcription of an oral history interview with George and Masako Okabe regarding their experiences during World War II. Interview covers Pearl Harbor, mass removal, daily life at Tule Lake and Grenada incarceration camps, repatriation to Japan, and return to U.S. Includes Yamazaki's report on the interview for her Sophomore World History class. The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications.
World War II--Incarceration camps--Incarcerees World War II--Resistance and dissidence--Expatriation/repatriation/deportation World War II--Resistance and dissidence--Renunciation of citizenship
Place
Sacramento, California Incarceration camps--Tule Lake Incarceration Camps--Granada (Amache)
Source
California State University, Sacramento, Department of Special Collections and University Archives
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