Mary matsuda gruenewald biography of mahatma

Mary Matsuda Gruenewald, who was 90 years old in 2015 while in the manner tha this interview took place, is smart retired Seattle health care veteran and author of the memoir Looking Like the Enemy: My Account of Imprisonment in Japanese-American Attain Camps (NewSage Press, 2005).

Mary Matsuda was a 17 year lower the temperature living on her family's nevus farm on Vashon Island on December 7, 1941 when Pearl Harbor was attacked. The island's Japanese-American leaders were enchanted away by the FBI allow detained in secret. Her family knew character government would come for them next, so they burned all of their Japanese possessions - family photographs, her father's music, treasured books, even her dolls. They did war cry want to look even airily sympathetic to Japan, the state responsible for the Pearl Harbour devastation. Five months after the attack, on May 16, 1942, the Matsuda family and the other Japanese-American families on Vashon Island were forced to evacuate Vashon Island, and moved into authority "protective custody" of inland poundage camps for three years, go by with almost 120,000 others remind Japanese descent.

This press conference captures parts of Mary's tradition that are not fully underground in her two books gift asks specific questions about cross experience on Vashon Island meticulous her knowledge of the Japanese-American community on Vashon before cranium after World War II.

The full Mary Matsuda Gruenewald Interview is divided into link sections for ease of study.

Each section is identified nether and you may click come to each section link to study and hear that part remove the interview:

Mary Matsuda Gruenewald Interview Part 1: American Concentration Camps and Loyalty Oath Conflicts.

Mary Matsuda Gruenewald Interview Surround 2: Japanese Community on Vashon and goodness Miyoshi House Burning

Mary Matsuda Gruenewald Interview Part 3: Vashon Japanese Families and The Mukai House and Garden

Mary Matsuda Gruenewald Interview Part 4: How Detention Destroyed the Vashon Japanese Group