Entrevistas

1. Memories of childhood in Peru

2. Forcibly deported to the U.S. from Peru

3. Food on the ship to the U.S.

4. Family welcomed at Crystal City

5. First meal at Crystal City

6. Enjoying undokai and sports in Crystal City

7. Postwar sponsorship (Inglês)

8. Immersed in Japanese culture and language

9. Proud of his Japanese, American, and Peruvian identity

Naganuma,Jimmy

(n. 1936) Japonês peruano encarcerado em Crystal City

Postwar sponsorship (Inglês)

(Inglês) Peru was...we lost everything, my father, all the business, everything we owned. I'm sure people, they left camp, they had homes here already, or they had some friends, but we didn't have anywhere to go. Reverend Fukuda is a reverend that teaches Shinto, Konko church in San Francisco, he had a lawyer, attorney general, right? Took all care of all his business. He wrote a letter to the INS saying that they'll sponsor us if we come to San Francisco and find them a job. And so that was the reason we came to San Francisco.

Data: September 20, 2019

Localização Geográfica: California, US

Entrevistado: Tom Ikeda and Yoko Nishimura

País: Watase Media Arts Center, Japanese American National Museum and Denshō: The Japanese American Legacy Project.

Entrevistados

Jimmy Naganuma nasceu em Callao, Peru, em 1936, de pais Isseis. Ele tinha oito anos quando sua família foi forçada a embarcar em um navio para serem encarcerados em Crystal City, Texas, durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Eles permaneceram lá, mesmo depois que a guerra terminou, sem um lugar para ir. Eles puderam sair por meio de um reverendo em São Francisco, Califórnia, onde conseguiram emprego e moradia.