Oral history interview with Don Shimazu
Extent and Medium
2 videocassette (U-Matic), sound, color ; 3/4 in.
Creator(s)
- Andrew Mirikitani
- Judy Weightman
Biographical History
Andrew Mirikitani and Judy Weightman, of the Hawaii Holocaust Project, conducted the interview with Don Shimazu 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
- Andrew Mirikitani
- Don Shimazu
- Shimazu, Don.
Corporate Bodies
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- United States. Army. Regimental Combat Team, 442nd
- United States. Army. Field Artillery, 131st. Battalion, 2nd
- United States. Army. Army, 7th
- United States. Army. Reserve Officers’ Training Corps
- United States. Army. Field Artillery Battalion, 522nd
Subjects
- Florence (Italy)
- Camp Shelby (Miss.)
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
- Livorno (Italy)
- Men--Personal narratives.
- Grosseto (Italy)
- Trentino-Alto Adige (Italy)
- World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--United States.
- Maui (Hawaii)
- Japanese American soldiers.
- Marseille (France)
- Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945.
- Pisa (Italy)
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--France.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Japanese American.
- Rhine River.
- Riviera (France)
- Munich (Germany)
- Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Italy.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
Genre
- Oral History
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