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When he was still a baby, Roger’s family was forced during World War II to live in a “relocation center” (camps where the US government forcibly relocated Americans of Japanese descent), probably in 1942. His father, Bill Ozaki, served in the US military during the war and was stationed in the CBI (China-Burma-India) Theater. After about a year, Roger’s family was able to leave the camp and temporarily lived in Cleveland, Ohio, until Bill Ozaki returned from the war. Then, they moved to Georgia somewhere around 1946 or 1947. In Georgia, Roger lived on Maryfield Plantation (Camden County), where the Ozaki family farmed. The family eventually moved off of the farm and Bill Ozaki found work elsewhere. Roger grew up during a period of segregation and postwar change in the South.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eIn his interview, Roger Ozaki discusses his family history, his family’s memories of being incarcerated by the US government during World War II because they were Japanese Americans, and his own experiences of growing up in postwar Georgia. He recalls how his parents talked about World War II, sharing his mother’s memories of the camps and his father’s memories of wartime service. Roger explains how his family rebuilt their lives in rural Georgia after the war. He describes his years as a student in the public school system in Camden County, Georgia. He talks about the complexities of living in the segregated South, and the impact that had on himself and his family. Roger also reflects on the ways World War II and wartime incarceration has impacted Americans of Japanese descent over the years.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/29050"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Subject"]},"value":{"en":["Ozaki, Roger (personal name)","Roosevelt, Eleanor (1884-1962) (personal name)","Thiokol Chemical (corporate name)","Union Carbide (corporate name)","California, United States (geographic term)","Camden County, Georgia (geographic term)","Cleveland, Ohio (geographic term)","Colorado River Indian Tribes Reservation (geographic term)","Colorado River Relocation Center (geographic term)","Georgia, United States (geographic term)","Hiroshima, Japan (geographic term)","Maryfield Plantation (Georgia) (geographic term)","Parker, Arizona (geographic term)","Poston Relocation Center (geographic term)","Asian Americans (topical term)","Atomic Bomb (topical term)","Buddhism (topical term)","Childhood (Rural Georgia) (topical term)","China-Burma-India Theater (WWII) (topical term)","Christian Churches (topical term)","Concentration Camps (topical term)","Executive Order 9066 (topical term)","Farming (Georgia) (topical term)","Immigration (topical term)","Japanese Americans during World War II (topical term)","Japanese American Military Service (WWII) (topical term)","Loss of Possessions (Japanese Americans during World War II) (topical term)","Public School System (Rural Georgia) (topical term)","Reactions to Pearl Harbor (topical term)","Segregation (topical term)","World War II (topical term)"]}}],"summary":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eRoger Ozaki was interviewed by Sandra Berman and Ruth Einstein on January 12, 2012 in Atlanta, Georgia.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRoger Ozaki\u0026rsquo;s parents were William K. \u0026ldquo;Bill\u0026rdquo; Ozaki and Hana Shirokawa Ozaki, who lived in California prior to World War II. When he was still a baby, Roger\u0026rsquo;s family was forced during World War II to live in a \u0026ldquo;relocation center\u0026rdquo; (camps where the US government forcibly relocated Americans of Japanese descent), probably in 1942. His father, Bill Ozaki, served in the US military during the war and was stationed in the CBI (China-Burma-India) Theater. After about a year, Roger\u0026rsquo;s family was able to leave the camp and temporarily lived in Cleveland, Ohio, until Bill Ozaki returned from the war. Then, they moved to Georgia somewhere around 1946 or 1947. In Georgia, Roger lived on Maryfield Plantation (Camden County), where the Ozaki family farmed. The family eventually moved off of the farm and Bill Ozaki found work elsewhere. Roger grew up during a period of segregation and postwar change in the South.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn his interview, Roger Ozaki discusses his family history, his family\u0026rsquo;s memories of being incarcerated by the US government during World War II because they were Japanese Americans, and his own experiences of growing up in postwar Georgia. He recalls how his parents talked about World War II, sharing his mother\u0026rsquo;s memories of the camps and his father\u0026rsquo;s memories of wartime service. Roger explains how his family rebuilt their lives in rural Georgia after the war. He describes his years as a student in the public school system in Camden County, Georgia. He talks about the complexities of living in the segregated South, and the impact that had on himself and his family. Roger also reflects on the ways World War II and wartime incarceration has impacted Americans of Japanese descent over the years.\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},"provider":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/aboutus","type":"Agent","label":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum"]},"homepage":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/","type":"Text","label":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum"]},"format":"text/html"}],"logo":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/082/original/TheBreman_SecondaryMark_Horizontal_Blue_Black.png?1713640889","type":"Image"}]}],"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/174/510/small/Ozaki_Roger.m4v_1675985026.jpg?1675985027","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 1 of 1 - Ozaki_Roger.m4v"]},"duration":1999.382,"width":640,"height":360,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/174/510/small/Ozaki_Roger.m4v_1675985026.jpg?1675985027","type":"Image","format":"image/jpeg"}],"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/content/1/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-thebreman.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/174/510/original/Ozaki_Roger.m4v?1675985025","type":"Video","format":"video/mp4","duration":1999.382,"width":640,"height":360},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Ozaki, Roger [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"BERMAN: Today is January 12, 2012. I am with Roger Ozaki who has agreed to\nparticipate in the Special Exhibitions Oral History Project of the William\nBreman Jewish Heritage and Holocaust Museum. My name is Sandy Berman, I'm the\narchivist for the museum and I'd like to thank you very much for agreeing to\nparticipate in this project for this exhibition.\n\nOZAKI: You're welcome.\n\nBERMAN: I'd like to begin by having you tell me a little bit about your family.\nAbout when they ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"immigrated from Japan and where they first settled, if you . . .\ncan start there.\n\nOZAKI: Okay. The family immigrated to California in the early 1900s. My parents\nwere there as well as my grandparents. My grandfather passed away before World\nWar II. My grandmother was alive, so when Executive Order 9066 was executed, my\ngrandmother, my mother, one of my aunts, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and I was a baby, were sent to camps on\nthe West Coast. We began in Reedley, California, and then were sent to Poston in\nArizona. That was I think in 1942, somewhere around May of 1942. As far as I\nknow from my mother, we were in the camps for almost a year, and then there was\nsome sponsorship from someone that I don't know in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cleveland, Ohio. They were\nnot able to stay on the West Coast, so they were able to leave the camps and had\nemployment in Cleveland, Ohio. So, a lot of the history of what I know is from\nmy mother. Of course I don't remember anything, being an infant in the camps.\nShe did mention things about the weather, and the food, and lack of privacy in\nthe barracks. They had several families in the same building. They didn't have\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"much privacy for different families. So it appears that we were there together,\nmy grandmother, my aunt, my mother, and I. I think my father was probably there\nat the same time, I don't know for sure.\n\nBERMAN: I have a lot of questions.\n\nOZAKI: All right.\n\nBERMAN: You mentioned your mother described some of the aspects of the camp, the\nfood . . . can you go into more detail, what she would say ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about those aspects?\nWhat was the food like?\n\nOZAKI: Well, she said the food supply was kind of meager, there wasn't a whole\nlot of food. The government would bring them . . . bring the food in in trucks.\nShe wasn't sure were they army trucks, or what they were. They did have army\npersonnel guarding the camps, so they were not allowed to fully leave the camp\nor go into the town. Actually it was in Parker, Arizona, the town nearby. The\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"camps were actually on the CRIT, which is the Colorado River Indian Tribe\nReservation. So, Poston I, II, and III were all on the Indian Reservation. My\nunderstanding is that the Colorado Indian Tribes, and there were several, were\nnot particularly interested in having the camp on their reservation, but the US\ngovernment decided that that's where it should be and that's where it was.\nTherefore . . . ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She did say it was, you know, windy and, you know, sandy, and\nthey had sandstorms, and very cold at times, because they were really tar paper\nshacks, they weren't well-insulated. There were cracks in the walls and, you\nknow, there were no paved roads, it was all dirt roads around there. She said\nshe remembers one time that Eleanor Roosevelt came to the camps to visit the\ncamps. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They thought that was a great thing, that Eleanor Roosevelt came, I don't\nknow if any other government . . . I'm sure other government officials did come.\nShe also said she didn't believe that any of the people of the churches visited\nthe camps. I think that some of them were curious about that even though a lot\nof the older Japanese were active Buddhists, some of the younger ones who were\nAmerican citizens were not Buddhists. They expected ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"some visits from their\nchurch pastors or church groups and that didn't happen.\n\nBERMAN: Did your mom ever describe her feelings about being taken away from her\nhome and shipped off to a strange place for . . . because of Pearl Harbor?\n\nOZAKI: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well, I think they--she said they felt a lot of guilt even though they\nhad nothing to do with it, she was Japanese American, born in California\nherself, they had a lot of guilt because they were Japanese. I mean, it wasn't\nlike they did anything, they were not at Pearl Harbor . . . felt a lot of guilt,\nbut also there was a lot of fear from . . . about the US government as to what\nwas going to happen to them, how long they were going to be in the camps, what\nwas going to happen, what was the government ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"going to do next. So there was a\nlot of that in the camps. They also knew that they probably couldn't go back\nhome because their homes were gone. They had to leave their homes, their\npossessions. I guess eventually, they lost their property because they couldn't\npay the taxes. They had no way to go back, and my understanding is a lot of them\nwhen they left the camps, they had an American sponsor for a job or whatever,\nthey ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"had to move outside . . . away from the West Coast, they couldn't go back\nto the West Coast. So they had to go inland, or east, or west, further, you\nknow, away from the coast, basically. Because apparently there was a lot of fear\nthat the Japanese government would bring troops on the West Coast, so . . .\n\nBERMAN: What about anger . . . at the government?\n\nOZAKI: I think that was the thing that I realized over the years ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"with my mother,\neven though she told me things when I was younger, that it made no sense to me.\nBecause, you know, I was raised in the American system and so forth . . . I\nwasn't raised around Japanese Americans very much, she didn't have any anger.\nShe had no resentment, hostility at all, she never mentioned that. She, I think\nin her mind, decided she was going to be a good American, which she was, and she\nwas ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=390.0,420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"going to do all she could to make sure her family was accepted. Me and my\nsister and two brothers, and of course my dad was a US Army Air Corps veteran,\nso he was accepted once people realized he was a veteran. Other than that, she\nintended to make us feel like we were accepted as Americans. What's interesting\nto me is that she would say when people would say things, you know, use racial\ncomments and all ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"that, she would say, \"Well, they're just ignorant. You know,\njust ignore that, they're just ignorant.\" I remember that all of my life, of\nignorance, basically.\n\nBERMAN: It's a very interesting comment that you made, about guilt. Feeling a\ncollective guilt for something that they had no involvement in.\n\nOZAKI: Mm-hmm.\n\nBERMAN: Can you expand upon that a little bit, because I think that's very\ninteresting to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=450.0,480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"our . . . to the subject.\n\nOZAKI: The guilt of being . . .\n\nBERMAN: Japanese.\n\nOZAKI: Well, I think probably because the newspapers, maybe the people, the\naverage American citizen, many a times felt like just because you were of an\nethnic group, a certain group, you were guilty, even though you were not alive,\nor you weren't there, or had nothing directly to do with it, so . . . I imagine\nthat's probably it, you know, and I feel like that's ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"probably the reason a lot\nof Japanese Americans maybe are not proud of Japan because of what Japan did to\nthe United States. All of us, you know, of course are citizens and loyal to the\nUnited States. So I think that part is probably the worst things Japan could\nhave done, not only to the United States as a whole, but to Japanese Americans\nor Japanese who were in the United States. Because, you know, I think people\nfrom other countries, Chinese, wherever they're ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"from, even from some of the Arab\ncountries, can be proud of their heritage because those countries never attacked\nthe United States. So I think in many cases that's something that's interesting,\nwhen you think about ethnic groups that have guilt, maybe it's because of\nsomething that happened before they were in existence or something happened,\nthey had nothing to do with it, but there's a certain amount of guilt because of\nthe ethnicity there. I think in the past I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"always cringed at Pearl . . .\nDecember 7, and Pearl Harbor, even though I was not there, had nothing to do\nwith it, just because I was Japanese American, or Japanese descent. So I always\ndreaded December 7, in the papers or wherever because it was such a big deal\nevery year. And I realize that the US lost a lot of guys there and so forth, but\n. . . the collective guilt I think . . . and I think other Japanese Americans\nfeel the same thing, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"we have a Japanese American Citizens League, and we don't\nhave our holiday party on December 7. We're always real sensitive to say, \"Okay,\nwe're going to have it some other time, afterwards or before, but not on\nDecember 7, because that's not a celebration day for us as Americans.\" So I\nthink that's part of what goes on there.\n\nBERMAN: Did your mom or your dad ever talk about their reaction or how they felt\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"after Pearl Harbor was bombed?\n\nOZAKI: Mother never said very much about that even though she was kind of\nembarrassed that Japan did that. I think for her it was more embarrassment and\nthe fear of what the retaliation would be since she was in this country, from\nthe US government. My dad was US Army Air Corps, he was a soldier, American\nsoldier, throughout. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"It's interesting that he hated Japanese, because his unit .\n. . he was the only Japanese American in his unit. The rest of his unit were all\nCaucasians. So, it's interesting too, his unit was sent to China, Burma, and\nIndia. He was in the CBI Theater for several years and they were fighting\nJapanese . . . Japanese soldiers. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He mentioned several times that if it wasn't\nfor his army buddies who were all Caucasians he wouldn't have survived because\nmany times they thought he might have been a spy because he was in an American\nArmy uniform and he was obviously Japanese. So he was very loyal to his army\nbuddies and I think that had a lot to do with the way we grew up, basically\nbecause he trusted folks, he didn't have a mistrust of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=690.0,720.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Caucasians, and so he got\nalong well, and he taught us well.\n\nBERMAN: What were your parents' names? We haven't mentioned that for the tape.\n\nOZAKI: What were their names?\n\nBERMAN: Mm-hmm.\n\nOZAKI: Okay, my mother's was Hana Ozaki, and dad was Bill, William K. \"Bill\" Ozaki.\n\nBERMAN: And he enlisted before . . . was he a soldier before Pearl Harbor, or\ndid he enlist immediately after?\n\nOZAKI: Well, that's kind of clouded in mystery. 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"He didn't want anybody to find him for another military deployment. I\nthink, he'd seen enough, he'd been in China, Burma, and India. He must have\nflown over \"The Hump\" many times because I remember years afterwards he wouldn't\nget on an airplane. Said, \"I'm not getting on.\" You know, even though we had\nmodern aircraft, jets. 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I guess whatever happened, they\neither didn't realize . . . they ignored the fact he was Japanese or they didn't\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"realize it. He basically . . . he was an American soldier and he went wherever\nthe unit asked him to go and he did . . . he followed orders and he was real\ngood about following orders. So he followed orders. I think other than the fact\nthat he was cautious about his own . . . not his own unit, but other American\nsoldiers seeing him, thinking he was a spy, that his own unit had to make sure\nthat they understood he wasn't. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Wartime hysteria, I guess, Burma and India and\nso forth, so he saw . . . he was in battlefield conditions so he saw some of\nthat. But, I thought it was interesting that he never wanted a medal. He just\nwanted to take care of his job, do his duty as a soldier, and come home, so I\nthought that was neat.\n\nBERMAN: You also mentioned earlier that they lost everything when they were sent\nto the camps. Did your mom ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"or your dad . . . well your dad wasn't in the camp,\nspeak of what it was like packing and leaving and then what they lost?\n\nOZAKI: Well, they lost, you know, what possessions they had, they didn't own a\nwhole lot because there were laws in California against . . . Asians owning\nproperty. So what they had they rented, or that sort of thing, so it was\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"temporary housing and whatever for them, so they didn't own a whole lot. She did\nsay one time that they could only take what they could carry basically,\nsuitcases or what they were wearing, clothing. But nothing of any value. Well,\nthey didn't have much of anything of value anyway because they were . . .\n\nBERMAN: Did they try to go back and reclaim any of their possessions following\nthe internment?\n\nOZAKI: She never ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"mentioned anything like that, that they wanted to go back. The\nonly time she wanted to go back was to see where they used to live. The old\nneighborhoods, where they were, that's about the only thing she ever said. She\nremembered some high school classmates she went to high school with, since she\ndidn't go to college she didn't have any college classmates, but she had high\nschool classmates. Of course, a lot of them remembered her, and of course\nremembered the fact they just kind of like ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"disappeared, some of them, they were\ngone. Of course, the high school classmates didn't know where a lot of them went\nbecause they went to different camps, different places. So she never . . . other\nthan going back, she never looked back for possessions or anything that she had.\nI guess because virtually they had almost nothing. They were farmers and they\nwere . . . my grandma I think was a domestic worker, a housekeeper or something\nlike that.\n\nBERMAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"You mentioned also that when they . . . that they were sponsored after a\nyear and went to Cleveland because everybody was moving inward. You were not the\nfirst person that said that they went to Cleveland. Do you know why . . . was it\njust a happenstance that it was Cleveland or was Cleveland part of a program to\nhelp Japanese Americans get out of the camps?\n\nOZAKI: I'm not really sure about that. I know there were others that went to\nCleveland, but apparently there was some ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=1050.0,1080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sponsorship from someone in Cleveland\nand they were able to get employment. So they were there temporarily too and I'm\nnot even sure what kind of jobs were available. I'm sure they were manual labor\njobs and things like that because a lot of them didn't have much education, they\ndidn't have a chance to go to college, they would have had high school education.\n\nBERMAN: How did you end up in Georgia? Your family?\n\nOZAKI: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well it's interesting. My . . . Bill Ozaki got out of service and he went\nto Cleveland, found my mother, and brought her to Georgia. He and some partners\nhad bought some property in southern Georgia as a farm, and he asked her to\nmarry him, and she . . . at that time she was single and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"she said yes. So he\nbrought her to Georgia to live on the farm, Maryfield Plantation. I think that\nwas 1946 or 1947, somewhere in there.\n\nBERMAN: Where is Maryfield Plantation?\n\nOZAKI: Maryfield Plantation was an old rice farm, rice plantation, way back, I\nguess . . . I don't know how far back. It consists of a thousand acres, 200\nacres of farmland, 800 acres of woods and marshes on the Satilla River. 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So they put up the money and he put his name on the deed, he was the\nowner, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but it was their farm. So I thought that was interesting. They farmed\nlettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes . . .\n\nBERMAN: Rice?\n\nOZAKI: No. No rice.\n\nBERMAN: No?\n\nOZAKI: They didn't know how to . . . what's interesting is they didn't know how\nto grow rice. They were all Japanese . . . dad was a citizen, a couple of the\nother partners, I guess, were immigrants from Japan, and then they didn't speak\nEnglish very much. But apparently they didn't know how to grow rice, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but they\nknew how to grow iceberg lettuce and so they did that. So they had two crops a\nyear, April and November, growing lettuce. And what's interesting, they would\nship lettuce all over the eastern seaboard and I think occasionally ship it to California.\n\nBERMAN: So that's where you grew up?\n\nOZAKI: That's where I grew up, on Maryfield Plantation, on the farm, and in the\ncountry, in the woods.\n\nBERMAN: How was it being, kind of, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"one of the few Japanese in that area of Georgia?\n\nOZAKI: Well, it was fascinating, as I remember and recall, I think because my\nparents worked so hard to be accepted in the community. They were involved in\nchurch work and dad was a charter member of the Woodbine Lions Club and being a\nUS Army Air Corps veteran, he was more accepted in the community. Because all\nthe veterans were when ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they came back. Then mother got into a woman's club and\nshe let people know who she was as a person and not as a Japanese person . . .\nthat they might be fearful of, or whatever. It was interesting that they . . .\nthey adapted to the circumstances. So, even though we were the only Japanese\nfamily, people, most people basically left us alone because they knew that they\nwere hard working and were farmers, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and you know, we were like anybody else. We\ndidn't have anything, and if we did, we didn't know it, you know, so it was that\nkind of thing. But it was interesting that . . . we didn't . . . I think my\nparents shielded us, if there were any kind of racial insults or racial things,\nthey pretty much didn't tell us, or they fended it off. So we went through--my\nsister and I went through the public school system and we had wonderful\nteachers, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"counselors, in that rural Camden County school system. They were\nwonderful, as I recall. We never had any incidents in school, no incidents\nanywhere. Now, I realize, they probably protected us. My sister and I didn't\nrealize that they protected us all the way through elementary and high school\nand so forth, you know. She had a chance to be in the band and be a majorette,\nand I had a ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"chance to play a little high school football. I wasn't very good\nbut, it was, I guess, I'm a greater athlete now than I was . . . when I was 16\nor 17. Anyway, a lot of those things are very pleasant, positive memories of\ngrowing up in a rural area. I have some of my best friends still down there that\nI went to high school with.\n\nBERMAN: What happened to the farm?\n\nOZAKI: The farm . . . eventually, the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"market was flooded through California, the\nlettuce in California was much easier to obtain, so the farm eventually . . .\nthey had to sell the farm, they couldn't make a living. So the farm was sold,\nand I'm not sure who bought it, but the farm was sold, which meant we had to\nmove from the farm. Dad was able to buy a piece of property in Woodbine,\nGeorgia, and he did that and built his own house and so forth. He knew some\npeople to help ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"him build it and so he built the house with his own raw materials\nand never had a mortgage. Paid cash for the land and bought the house--I mean,\nbuilt the house and bought it and paid for it without a mortgage.\n\nBERMAN: What did he do after farming?\n\nOZAKI: He . . . there was a period of time there, he was very, I think, upset,\nbecause he didn't have employment. But then he knew some folks in town ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"who had\ncompanies and he was able to get a job and I think it was Thiokol . . . Thiokol\nChemical Company was the first one. They made rocket fuel for the space program,\none of the first places to make rocket fuel. So he was able to work there as\nsome kind of a supervisor. Then that company was bought out by another company,\nI'm not sure which one that was . . . 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","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Anyway, it\nwas the same company where they had a gas catastrophe in India where a lot of\npeople died from gas attacks and all that. There was some . . .\n\nBERMAN: Wasn't that Dow Chemical?\n\nEINSTEIN: It was Union . . .\n\nOZAKI: Yeah, maybe it was . . . somewhere where . . .\n\nBERMAN: I think it was Dow.\n\nOZAKI: Anyway the same company, so they were sending some shipment . . . some\nshipment to India or somewhere, so they asked him to ride a container ship to\nmonitor the gas shipment all the way across the ocean, and he had ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=1530.0,1560.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"already\nretired actually, I think. So he did that, so he thought it was an adventure, so\nhe was able to go across the ocean and monitor the gas shipment and got there\nsafely, and he flew back and he was so happy. But he did that for several years.\n\nBERMAN: Let's talk a little bit about you.\n\nOZAKI: Oh.\n\nBERMAN: So you obviously were a baby when you were in the internment camp. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How\ndo you feel about what happened, now, in retrospect? Have you analyzed the whole\nthing? You know, the whole process of what happened to your family, the . . .\nreally, injustice that happened to your family. Have you thought about that?\n\nOZAKI: I have thought about that. It's hard for me to imagine since I was not\nold enough to experience the war hysteria, and the fear that people had, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and of\ncourse the papers and all the news media. And it was realistic, there was a lot\nof aggression from Japan and Japanese soldiers. They were actually taking over a\nlot of countries. They'd invade a lot of countries, and they certainly had taken\nover a lot of countries. So that part isn't hard for me to understand. I can\nprobably have some idea of what probably went on . . . that people were afraid\nof . . . people that were not Asian were afraid of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Asian faces, thinking the\nJapanese were going to take over the country there. I guess, the government, it\nwas a necessary thing for them to do, to round up Japanese Americans, but you\nknow, again it's a case of discrimination, basically. So sometimes I think,\nwell, they did that because of retaliation against Japanese . . . the wrong\nones, Japanese Americans not Japan, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but I also thought, maybe that's the way\nthat the government decided to protect Japanese Americans from the rest of the\npopulation is to ask them or put them in camps there. Then I thought, well, no,\nthat's not right either, because it made them all leave their homes,\npossessions, or families, whatever, and leave the West Coast so it was not\nnecessarily protection of the Japanese Americans, but it was to protect the West\nCoast ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and people who lived on the West Coast there. So, beyond that, I don't\nhave any antagonistic feelings, or you know, that sort of thing because I've\ngrown up, you know, in the American society and educated in this country and\nelementary, high school, and so, you know . . .\n\nBERMAN: Did your parents ever discuss the bombing of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Hiroshima and Nagasaki? The\nnuclear bomb?\n\nOZAKI: No . . .\n\nBERMAN: Atomic bomb.\n\nOZAKI: They didn't really say a whole lot about that. My mother's family was\nfrom Hiroshima, there. My grandmother, grandfather, and there were relatives\nthere. So there were some from that part of the family who were killed there in\nHiroshima. But it was sort of like they just kind of divided, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"you know, before and\nafter. Before was Japan, after was United States. So it was like the family, our\nfamily, basically, our history was split. They didn't really go back much to the\nbefore part of the history of the family. It was more all about now and new life\nand you know, that sort of thing. So there was never any . . . you know, I'm\nsure they were sensitive to it, but they . . . that's one thing they didn't\ndiscuss with us at all, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"so I don't have any information about that.\n\nBERMAN: Do you ever have any desire to reconnect with any of those lost\nrelatives over there?\n\nOZAKI: Yes, I've had several ideas about going to Japan. I've never been to\nJapan. To go to Japan and see what it's like just to be over there and be among\nlots of Japanese people. To go back to maybe Hiroshima and see what's there and\nthat sort of thing. 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I recognize it spoken and I know a few words\nbut I can't carry on a conversation.\n\nBERMAN: I think we've kind of asked everything.\n\nEINSTEIN: I have a question . . .\n\nBERMAN: Sure.\n\nEINSTEIN: Roger, we've done so many interviews of Jews that were like the only\nJewish ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"family in small Southern towns and I'm just curious if there's maybe a\ncorrelation to, you know, you weren't . . . you weren't white, you weren't\nBlack, you were just in the middle of this very divided society and how did you\nnegotiate that, or was there ever any problem or was there a positive aspect to\nbeing neither one?\n\nOZAKI: Well, it was interesting, because I remember growing up, and after you\nmentioned that as all the forms when I was growing, it was \"Black or White.\"\nYou'd mark Black or mark ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"white. Then the school system would say, \"Well, you're\nobviously not Black, so you're white.\" So they'd check it off for us. So that's\nkind of how it got started, and we knew we were different, no one made us feel\ndifferent. But the people we dealt with in the schools and wherever just said,\n\"Okay, you're white, you're not Black.\" So you know, things were segregated down\nin those areas, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and that's kind of the way it was. I remember things being\nsegregated in some of the . . . well, you know, the schools, restaurants, and\nall the places like that. Movie theaters were segregated where . . . they had that.\n\nBERMAN: Did you think about it much when you were growing up? Or was it just\npart of your . . .\n\nOZAKI: I didn't think about it very much. I guess since they decided for me,\nwhat I was, I wasn't ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"too concerned about it, you know, at that point. And then,\nhaving gone to college in Georgia and so forth and seeing the history of Georgia\nand that sort of thing, I've realized a lot more, having matured . . . the\nhistory of Georgia, so a lot of things . . . you realize as you get older that\nyou may not realize when you're younger or you're involved in something else,\nanother part of your life there.\n\nBERMAN: ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/transcript/41937/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Well on that note, I'd like to thank you . . .\n\nOZAKI: Okay.\n\nBERMAN: I appreciate the interview.\n\nOZAKI: Thank you.\n\nBERMAN: And is there anything we missed that you'd like to expound on?\n\nOZAKI: No, I don't think so.\n\nBERMAN: Okay. Thank you.\n\nOZAKI: All right, thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=1980.0,2010.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/annotation_set/994","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/annotation_set/994/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum in Atlanta celebrates and commemorates Jewish history, culture, and art through events and museum spaces. The Breman also contains the Cuba Family Archives for Southern Jewish History, which houses thousands of manuscripts, oral histories, and photograph collections, related to Southern Jewish history and the Holocaust.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/annotation_set/994/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eWorld War II (abbreviated WWII) was a global war involving fighting in most of the world. The majority of countries fought in the years 1939–1945 but some started fighting in 1937. Most of the world's countries, including all the great powers, fought as part of two military alliances: the Allies and the Axis Powers. World War II was the largest and deadliest conflict in history. It involved more countries, cost more money, involved more people, and killed more people than any other war in history. Between 50 to 85 million people died. The majority were civilians. It included massacres, the deliberate genocide of the Holocaust, strategic bombing, starvation, disease, and the only use of nuclear weapons in history.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/annotation_set/994/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eExecutive Order 9066 was a United States presidential executive order issued during World War II. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed it on February 19, 1942, authorizing the Secretary of War to remove people from certain military areas. Although its content did not specifically discuss Japanese Americans, in reality, Executive Order 9066 was used to force the relocation and incarceration of Japanese Americans to “relocation centers.” These “centers” were in fact prisons (now increasingly called concentration camps to reflect the targeted racism and forced incarceration endured by Americans of Japanese descent at these sites).\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/86258/file/174510/annotation_set/994/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Colorado River Relocation Center (also known as the Poston Relocation Center) consisted of Poston Units I, II, and III. It was located near Parker, Arizona on the Colorado River Indian Tribes Reservation. 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