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Married prior to mass removal, and was sent to the Manzanar concentration camp, California. Transferred to the Heart Mountain concentration camp, Wyoming, and worked on the camp newspaper. Drafted into the army and served with the Military Intelligence Service in the Philippines and occupied Japan."},{"id":"443","model":"narrator","index":"19 5469/{'value': 5890, 'relation': 'eq'}","links":{"html":"https://ddr.densho.org/narrators/443/","json":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/443/","img":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/tceleste.jpg","thumb":"https://ddr.densho.org/media/narrators/tceleste.jpg","interviews":"https://ddr.densho.org/api/0.2/narrator/443/interviews/"},"display_name":"Celeste Teodor","bio":"Nisei female. Born June 24, 1936, in Los Angeles, California. Placed for adoption and was living in an orphanage when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941. Transferred to Manzanar's Childrens Village during World War II. 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