KAKU​,​ Shizuko

My twelve-year-old younger brother came to meet me, and even after all those years, I recognized him right away. His face hadn’t changed at all since he was a child. We lived in San Francisco. My husband’s father and mother were already there, and my husband came first — I came later to join him. Then the war began, and we were sent to a camp in Utah. We were there for about three years. In August 1945, we were released, and I came to New York. I went to stay with my two sons, and now I’m living with one of them. This interview is part of the DMHJNY's new exhibit Issei: Portraits Of The First-Generation Japanese New Yorkers which is on view here: https://www.historyofjapaneseinny.org/issei/