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Summary:

Interview with Yuri Fukui, a geneticist, concerning her experiences during the relocation of Japanese-Americans in World War II. Fukui discusses her childhood, pre-Pearl Harbor discrimination, Pearl Harbor, Tanforan Assembly Center, camp life, Topaz, the registration of Japanese-Americans for military service, leave clearance, and the Issei-Nisei conflicts.

Author/Creator:

Fukui, Yuri, 1922-

Contributors:

Mayfield, Cecile B.

World War II Japanese-American Civilian Internees Oral History Project

North Texas State University > Oral History Collection

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Oral history interview with Yuri Fukui, 1980 October 19 [by Fukui, Y.]

Related Series:

Oral History; [volume] 522

Subjects:

Fukui, Yuri, 1922- — Oral history

Japanese Americans — Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945 — Oral history

World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, American — Oral history

World War, 1939-1945 — Japanese Americans — Oral history

Tanforan Assembly Center (San Bruno, Calif.) — Oral history

Central Utah Relocation Center — Oral history

Women — Oral history

Asian Americans — Oral history

Genres:

Oral history — Examples

World War II oral history — Examples

Japanese-American civilian internees oral history — Examples

General Notes:

Interview conducted in 1980 for the World War II Japanese-American Civilian Internees Oral History Project. Interviewer: Cecile Benson Mayfield.

Physical Description:

60 leaves ; 29 cm

Call Numbers:

OH 522

OCLC Numbers:

191853966