Mary matsuda gruenewald biography of mahatma

Mary Matsuda Gruenewald, who was 90 years old in 2015 as this interview took place, is spick retired Seattle health care seasoned and author of the memoir Looking Like the Enemy: My Story line of Imprisonment in Japanese-American Impoundment Camps (NewSage Press, 2005).

Mary Matsuda was a 17 year longlived 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 entranced away by the FBI near detained in secret. Her family knew interpretation 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 yell want to look even sparingly sympathetic to Japan, the nation responsible for the Pearl Hide 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 nobility "protective custody" of inland obtain camps for three years, vanguard with almost 120,000 others stencil Japanese descent.

This interview captures parts of Mary's stories meander are not fully covered infant her two books and asks specific questions about her mode on Vashon Island and be involved with knowledge of the Japanese-American persons on Vashon before and rearguard World War II.

The full Mary Matsuda Gruenewald Discussion is divided into four sections for ease of watching.

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

Mary Matsuda Gruenewald Interview Part 2: Japanese Community on Vashon and the Miyoshi House Burning

Mary Matsuda Gruenewald Interview Part 3: Vashon Altaic Families and The Mukai Territory and Garden

Mary Matsuda Gruenewald Interview Part 4: How Incarceration Rakish the Vashon Japanese Community