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