Dave Tatsuno

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Dave Tatsuno (born Masaharu Tatsuno in 1913; died January 26, 2006 in California) was a Japanese American businessman who documented life in his family's internment camp during World War II. His footage was later compiled into the film Topaz (named for the Topaz Relocation Center where he was confined). The film was placed in the National Film Registry, part of the Library of Congress, in 1997. He was a 1936 graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.

While Tatsuno had said that he was born in San Francisco, photographs of his mother arriving from Japan showed him as an infant in her arms.

[edit] See also

• Japanese American internment

[edit] External links

• Photograph of the Tatsuno family in the Topaz camp.
• Photograph of Dave Tatsuno preparing to evacuate to the Topaz camp.
• Interview with the Densho Archive (free registration required).
• "American Topics : Rare Look at Internment Camp", The International Herald Tribune, January 27, 1997.