Tag: 1927
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Poonum Sadhwani
B12I, Poonum Sadhwani ‘86, B. C. Daswani, Uncle, 1927, Burma [Myanmar], India My uncle lived in Burma [Myanmar] and India during World War II, and he told me about his experiences when I interviewed him in May 1985. He was born in 1927 and is now 58 years old. Q: Where were you during the…
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Eriko Satō
L11, Eriko Satō ‘04, Ito Muramatsu, Grandmother, 1927, Shizuoka On November 2, 2002, I interviewed my maternal grandmother by telephone. Her name is Ito Muramatsu, and she is 75 years old. She survived one of the most disastrous of all wars: World War II. World War II broke out in Europe in 1939, which corresponds…
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Mayumi Murabayashi
N06F, Mayumi Murabayashi ‘07, Leonora Gajudo, Grandmother, 1927, Philippines My maternal grandmother is Leonora Miranda Gajudo. She lives in the Philippines, and I talked to her on October 12, 2005, when I called her on her 78th birthday. It was in the year 1943 when it all happened. The sadness, anger, frustration—all the negative and…