• Title
  Item 1: Mrs Hideko Coombes interview by Louise Whelan, 23 October 2015
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  23 October 2015
• Type of material
  Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories
• Reference code
  9646641
• Physical Description
  1 audio file (67 min.) - digital, WAV, stereo (48 kHz, 24 bit)
  
• Scope and Content
  Hideko talks of her ‘experience [of] the atomic bomb’ and reflects on the attitudes and expectations of women. She speaks about the shame of losing the war, her interrupted education during the war where she was sent to farms and factories to help manufacture parts for submarines. She recounts fleeing Kure, when it was bombed, and her experience of seeing the dark cloud of the ‘Atomic bomb’. Hideko recalls her exits from Japan and her memorable entry into Sydney harbour with her new husband and recounts her career path in Australia, including working for the Japanese Embassy in Sydney.
• Copying Conditions
  Copyright status:: In copyright
  Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales
  Rights and Restrictions Information:: Download available for research, personal use and public use
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Recorded on 23 October 2015 at Meriton Apartment, 320 Pitt Street, Sydney.
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Coombes, Hideko
  
• Subject
  World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Japanese.
  Sydney (N.S.W.)--Social life and customs--1945-
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE15835106
• Digital Collection
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