Oral history interview with Joseph Obayashi
Extent and Medium
2 videocassette (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Creator(s)
- Judy Weightman
Biographical History
Judy Weightman, of the Hawaii Holocaust Project, conducted the interview with Joseph Obayashi on December 21, 1987 as part of a project to interview Holocaust survivors and concentration camp liberators currently living in Hawaii. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum received a copy of the interview in March 1990.
Archival History
Hawaii Holocaust Project, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Acquisition
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, acquired from the Hawaii Holocaust Project
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Restrictions on use. See collections release form for details regarding restrictions.
People
- Judy Weightman
- Joseph Obayashi
- Obayashi, Joseph, 1924-
Corporate Bodies
- United States. Army. Regimental Combat Team, 442nd
Subjects
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945.
- Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front.
- Japanese American soldiers.
- Men--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--United States.
- Maui (Hawaii)
- France.
- Camp Shelby (Miss.)
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
- Germany.
- Italy.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Japanese American.
Genre
- Oral History
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