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Contact: Diane Tanaka
310-222-5709
GO FOR BROKE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION TO
CONDUCT FREE
ORAL HISTORY TRAINING SESSION FOR HANASHI PROGRAM
Successful Video-Based Oral History
Program Seeks Volunteers Interested In Preserving The Nisei Veteran
Legacy Through Their Unique Stories
(TORRANCE, Calif., February 6, 2004) - The Go
For Broke Educational Foundation’s highly successful Hanashi
Oral History Program will conduct a free training session - providing
instruction on interview techniques and a brief tutorial on professional
Beta SP camera operation - on Saturday, February 21 from 1 - 3
p.m. The session will be held at the Educational Foundation’s
office in Torrance. Please RSVP by calling the Hanashi coordinator,
at 310-222-5705 or hanashi@goforbroke.org.
Funded by the Go For Broke Educational Foundation, Hanashi’s
mission is to videotape and record the rich stories and the heroics
of the World War II Japanese American veterans of the 100th Battalion,
442nd Regimental Combat Team, Military Intelligence Service and
others. Hanashi does this to preserve their legacy so future generations
can see and hear the stories from the men and women who lived
them. These life stories are being used to educate students through
curriculum development and media projects such as the “A
Tradition of Honor” documentary co-produced by Hanashi volunteers
Craig Yahata and David Yoneshige. Additionally, 120 full-length
interviews and 40 clips from the Hanashi oral history archives
are key word searchable and accessible on the Educational Foundation’s
recently re-launched Web site, www.GoForBroke.org. In 2004, Hanashi
is scheduled to add an additional 100 interviews to its current
archive of 405.
Prospective volunteers are encouraged to attend this three-hour
training session that will provide an overview of the Hanashi
program and summary overview of the 100th/442nd/MIS. No experience
is required to volunteer for the following Hanashi crew positions:
interviewers, videographers, audio mixers, interview catalogers
and production assistants. The Hanashi volunteers travel - expenses
paid - throughout the U.S. to interview veterans, as well as conduct
local interviews. Opportunities for the following crew slots are
available: February 28-29 Southern California interviews; March
5-7 Fresno interviews; March 19-21 Sacramento interviews, to name
a few.
The Go For Broke Educational Foundation institutes educational
programs focused on the heroism and history of the Japanese American
soldiers of World War II, as well as the forced evacuation and
incarceration of Japanese Americans and civil liberties issues
raised by those events. Currently the Educational Foundation’s
programs include An American Story Teacher Training Program, Hanashi
Oral History Program, www.GoForBroke.org educational Web site,
and Resource Center.
In 1989 Japanese American World War II veterans established the
100th/442nd/MIS WWII Memorial Foundation to build the Go For Broke
Monument, which today is an eternal tribute to the heroics of
the segregated Japanese American units: 100th Infantry Battalion,
442nd Regimental Combat Team, MIS (Military Intelligence Service)
and the many other men and women who served overseas during World
War II. The Monument is located in the Little Tokyo district of
downtown Los Angeles at Temple and Alameda Streets.
