Entrevistas

1. Japanese Hospital: My Father & Mother

2. About her father

3. Maryknoll Sanitarium

4. Beach & America

5. World War II Incarceration

Kuroiwa,Margaret

Hija de un doctor Issei

World War II Incarceration

We went, at the beginning of the war we went to Santa Anita racetrack. And we stayed there for the nine - nine months, and as Catholics probably we would have gone with the Catholics community to Manzanar, but because my father was a doctor, he had to go wherever they sent him. We were very lucky, my godmother is Polish and her husband is Japanese so we were able to store some things at her house, we were able to store some things at the Mary Knoll Sanitarium, and then my mother or sister told me it’s someplace else, so no, nobody, no doctors took anything with them. It was just all provided by the government. When we did go to Santa Anita, because our last meal was at Monrovia, and then the sisters drove us to Santa Anita so we were fortunate not to have just one suitcase, just like many of the doctors that came from every other place. We were sent to Jerome, Arkansas and we stayed there and then when Jerome closed we went to Rohwer, Arkansas. We were in camp three and a half years and perhaps we could have left earlier but my father did not want to leave until it was okay to come back to the west coast.

Arkansas California campos de concentración centro de detención temporal de Santa Anita centros de detención temporal Estados Unidos Segunda Guerra Mundial campos de la Segunda Guerra Mundial

Fecha: February 3, 2010

Zona: California, US

Entrevista: Eiko Masuyama, Carole Fujita, Yoko Nishimura

País: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum

Entrevista

Margaret Kuroiwa es la tercera hija del Dr. Daishiro Kuroiwa de la prefectura de Saga, Japón y Agnes Haruyo Ogawa Kuroiwa. Su padre fue un prominente físico Issei que trabajó en el hospital Japonés Turner Street Southern California y fue uno de los 5 médicos junto al Dr. Tashiro, que demandaron al Estado de California. Su consultorio se encuentra en Boyle Heights y Taul Building en Little Tokio. También atiende pacientes con tuberculosis en Monrovia Sanitarium. Ella y sus 4 hermanas nacieron el nuevo Hospital Japonés en la esquina de las calles First y Fickett. (11 de abril de 2010)