Immigrants -- Oregon
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Oral history interview with Chiyo Endo
Collection
Identifier: SR 951
Abstract
Oral history interview with Chiyo Endo conducted in Japanese by Nadyne Yoneko Dozono on February 28 and March 2, 1992, as part of the Japanese American Oral History Project. Endo discusses her early life in Fukushima, Japan, her marriage to Kanichi Endo after immigrating to the United States, and her experiences after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Dates:
1992 February 28-March 2
Linda Tamura oral history interviews with Issei in the Hood River Valley, Oregon
Collection
Identifier: SRC 2
Abstract
Audio recordings of oral history interviews with 11 first-generation Japanese Americans in Hood River, Oregon, conducted by Linda Tamura from October 8, 1985, to May 31, 1986. The interviews were the basis for a book by Tamura, titled "The Hood River Issei: An Oral History of Japanese Settlers in Oregon's Hood River Valley." Interviewees discuss their early lives in Japan; their experiences as immigrants to the United States; their lives in the Hood River Valley of Oregon; and their...
Dates:
1985 October 8-1986 May 31
Oral history interview with Kay N. Toyooka
Collection
Identifier: SR 975
Abstract
Oral history interview with Kay N. Toyooka, conducted in Japanese by Yasashi Ichikawa on April 16, 1992, as part of the Japanese American Oral History Project. Toyooka discusses his early life in Hiroshima, Japan, his immigration to the United States, and farm life in Oregon in the 1920s and 1930. He speaks about his experiences at the Portland Assembly Center in Portland, Oregon, and the Minidoka Relocation Center in Idaho as one of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans who were incarcerated...
Dates:
1992 April 16