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Title: Ruth Hayashi video oral history.
Dates: 2016
Collection Number: Video 3
Creator/Collector:
Hayashi, Ruth (interviewee)
Li, Amy (interviewer)
Guzman, Mylena (vidoegrapher)
Extent: 1 video; 17.51 min.
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Repository:
Berkeley Historical Society
Berkeley, California 94704
Abstract: Interview with Ruth Hayashi, Japanese-American living in Berkeley at the time of internment during World War II and return
to Berkeley thereafter.
Language of Material: English
The interview is available online.
Copyright is held by the Berkeley Historical Society. Permission to publish should be addressed to the Oral History Committee
of the society.
Ruth Hayashi video oral history.. Berkeley Historical Society
Biography/Administrative History
The interview was conducted on November 3, 2015 by Berkeley High School student Amy Li (interviewer) and Mylena Guzman
(videographer)
Scope and Content of Collection
Ruth Hayashi was born in Berkeley in 1933, living at The Cedars at 1301 Oxford Street until she and her mother were interned
at Topaz internment camp in Utah from 1942 - 1945. Ruth and her mother returned to Berkeley at the end of the war, where Ruth
graduated from Berkeley High in 1951. In this interview, Ms. Hayashi focuses on the Japanese-American experience in Berkeley
before and after the war.
Japanese Americans--Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945--Personal narratives.