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Oral history interview with Tei Endow

 Digital Record
Identifier: SR 979

Summary

Digitized audio recording of an oral history interview with Tei Endow (1900-1992) conducted in 1986, with abridged transcript in English. Endow discusses her early life in Shimizu, Japan, her marriage to Shohei Endow in 1917, and adjusting to life in the Hood River Valley of Oregon, where she and her husband farmed in Odell. She talks about raising four children and about daily life on a farm. She describes her experiences after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941; discusses her experiences of forced removal and incarceration during World War II; and talks about her family's experiences working on a sugar beet farm in Montana and an apple orchard in Idaho in order to leave the Tule Lake incarceration camp. She discusses her return to the Hood River Valley after the end of the war in 1945, and reflects on her experiences as a first-generation Japanese American woman.

Language of Materials

Japanese

English

Repository Details

Part of the Oregon Historical Society Research Library Repository

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