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Letter from a camp teacher to her family

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ddr-densho-171-63 (Legacy UID: denshopd-p171-00063)

Helen Amerman Manning Collection

Excerpt: "If I thought I was busy at any time during the last two years, it was a mild form of self-indulgence!" Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

November 5, 1944

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Courtesy of the Helen Amerman Manning Collection

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