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Oral history interview with Hatsumi Nishimoto

 Digital Record
Identifier: SR 985

Summary

Digitized audio recording of interview with Hatsumi Nishimoto (1900-1999) conducted in 1986, with abridged English transcript (31 pages). Nishimoto discusses her early life in Hiroshima, Japan, and talks about her marriage to Otoichi Nishimoto in 1918. She describes their journey to the United States later that year, and discusses working on apple orchards in Hood River, Oregon. She discusses the property they purchased in Pine Grove, south of Hood River, in 1930, and talks about raising a family. She shares her experiences after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, including the arrest of her husband by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. She discusses her experiences while incarcerated by the U.S. government at the Tule Lake camp in California and the Heart Mountain camp in Wyoming during World War II. She discusses returning to the Hood River Valley after the war ended, and reflects on her experiences as a first-generation Japanese American woman.

Repository Details

Part of the Oregon Historical Society Research Library Repository

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