Title:
Ruth Ann Holmes Philippine internment diary and correspondence, 1937-1960
Holmes
Creator/Contributor:
Holmes, Ruth Ann., creator
Creator/Contributor:
Perkins, Eugene Arthur, b. 1887
Abstract:
Dairy, transcript, correspondence, clippings, and artwork.
Date:
1937 (issued)
Subject:
n-us-ca
Diaries
Correspondence
World War II
Internment camps
Philippines
Note:
Ruth Ann Holmes was born in Montana on December 14, 1898 (although her diary indicates 1891). She moved to California with
family members in 1917, lived in Oakland, and worked in the beauty department of the San Francisco Emporium. In 1937 Holmes
moved to the Philippines and operated a beauty salon in Manila's Bay View Hotel. On January 30, 1942, after Japanese forces
invaded and conquered the Philippines, Holmes was interned with other Americans at the Santo Tomas Internment Camp. Before
the camp was liberated on February 3, 1945, she witnessed numerous air raids on Manila by American planes. After the war Homes
remained in the Philippines as companion and assistant to Eugene A. Perkins, aprominent attorney with whom she had been interned.
She nursed him though his final illness until his death in 1956, and remained in the Philippines while Perkins' will was being
contested. Holmes returned to Oakland in 1960, and died on May 5, 1971.
Holmes.
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Unrestricted. Please credit California State Library.
Type:
biography
Physical Description:
print
2 manuscript boxes; 15 1/4 x 11 3/4 x 3 in.
Language:
English
Identifier:
Origin:
California
Copyright Note:
Unrestricted. Please credit California State Library.