Oral history interview with Fred Hirayama
Extent and Medium
1 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 Fred Hirayama 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
Conditions Governing Access
No restrictions on access
Conditions Governing Reproduction
Restrictions on use. See collections release form for details regarding restrictions.
People
- Hirayama, Fred.
- Andrew Mirikitani
- Judy Weightman
- Fred Hirayama
Corporate Bodies
- Dachau (Concentration camp)
- United States. Army. Field Artillery Battalion, 522nd
- United States. Army. Regimental Combat Team, 442nd
Subjects
- Men--Personal narratives.
- World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American.
- World War, 1939-1945--Concentration camps--Liberation.
- World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Japanese American.
- World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Western Front.
- Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), Attack on, 1941.
- Gas chambers.
- Concentration camp inmates.
- Hawaii.
- Germany.
- France.
- Camp Shelby (Miss.)
- World War, 1939-1945--Veterans--United States.
- Japanese American soldiers.
Genre
- Oral History
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