Oral history interview with Tsuruko Nakamura, 2011 July 19.

Tsuruko Nakamura was born in 1939. She remembers seeing B-29s in the sky when she was in elementary school, and she talks about having to go to the bomb shelter every time the air raid sirens would sound. She and her family fled to the countryside the day before the bombing, but her father was in th...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Naoko Wake Collection of Oral Histories of US Survivors, Families, and Supporters.
Other Authors: Nakamura, Tsuruko, 1939- (Interviewee)
Wake, Naoko (Interviewer)
Language:Japanese
Language and/or Writing System:
In Japanese.
Series:Naoko Wake Collection of Oral Histories of US Survivors, Families, and Supporters.
Subjects:
Nakamura, Tsuruko, > 1939- > Interviews.
Atomic bomb victims > Japan > Hiroshima-shi > Interviews.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) > History > Bombardment, 1945 > Personal narratives.
World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives.
Atomic bomb victims > Wounds and injuries > Japan > Hiroshima-shi.
Nakamura, Tsuruko, > 1939- > Childhood and youth.
Nakamura, Tsuruko, > 1939- > Family.
Nakamura, Tsuruko, > 1939- > Marriage.
Japanese Americans > Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945.
Atomic bomb victims > Psychology.
Oral histories.
Genre:
Interviews.
Personal narratives.
Oral histories.
Online Access:
Listen to sound recording - All users (Michigan State University Libraries)
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 audio file (1 hr., 55 min., 38 sec.))
Format: Electronic Audio Software

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