Entrevistas

1. Her early memories before the war

2. Learning English

3. Taking her father’s ashes, going back to Japan, learning the koto and culture

4. Sensing the war was coming

5. Coming back to America from Japan before the war

6. Working at the family flower shop, meeting Greta Garbo

7. Her experience of Japanese American Evacuation

8. Memories of Manzanar

9. Working in the camp hospital

10. Wind in camp

11. Her grandfather and Dr. Thompson

12. Her grandmother comes to Manzanar

13. Experiencing prejudice after the war

Kozawa,Sumiko

(1916-2016) Florista

Her grandmother comes to Manzanar

Toward the end, my grandmother was dying. At this place. I don’t know. It’s some, like a convalescence home that they had. And so my grandfather was there too. But, you know, the men’s room and the women’s room, grandpa didn’t care. He used to have my grandmother out in the hall there. And she wanted water but they wouldn’t give her water so he used to get the water and give it to grandmother.

Anyway, towards the end somehow my mother got in contact with Father Leary and, this has been weeks now. So finally we got her back to Manzanar. And that was during the nighttime she came in. And by then, of course, she was half gone anyway, you know. We got her in the hospital and her eyes opened a couple of times, and that was about it.

And the nurse, Akita, turned her over, and you could see the bed sores she had. On her back, around her buttocks. Horrific bed sores. And nurse Akita, she shook her head. She says, my goodness, she says, they didn’t take care of her at all. So she makes this great big thing with this great big donut like, but in the morning she passed on. You could just feel that soreness into you.

Califórnia campos de concentração famílias avôs avós( campo de concentração de Manzanar pais Estados Unidos da América Segunda Guerra Mundial Campos de concentração da Segunda Guerra Mundial

Data: May 24, 2011

Localização Geográfica: California, US

Entrevistado: John Esaki

País: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum

Entrevistados

Sumiko Kozawa nasceu em 1916, em Los Angeles. A mais velha de cinco filhos, Sumi passou três anos no Japão antes da Segunda Guerra Mundial, aprendendo koto, arranjos florais e cerimônia do chá. A loja de flores de sua família, a Tokio Florist em Silver Lake, era popular na comunidade de Hollywood por causa de suas flores frescas e preços razoáveis. Sumi não só ajudou, mas também teve a oportunidade de conhecer muitas pessoas, incluindo a famosa estrela do cinema mudo, Greta Garbo. Quando o Japão bombardeou Pearl Harbor, Sumi e sua família foram enviados para Manzanar. Lá, ela ajudou a cuidar da família, cuidando de seu avô e de sua irmã mais nova. Ela morreu em dezembro de 2016, aos 92 anos de idade. (Dezembro de 2016)