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Letter from a camp teacher to her family

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Helen Amerman Manning Collection

Excerpt: "This week has been like winter and today has been raining so we snuggled indoors and have played Chinese checkers all afternoon." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

September 17, 1944

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Courtesy of the Helen Amerman Manning Collection

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