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Letter from a camp teacher to her family

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ddr-densho-171-81 (Legacy UID: denshopd-p171-00081)

Helen Amerman Manning Collection

Excerpt: "I think I wrote to you on the weekend that Joe was away. Elmer took Evelyn and me to dinner in Jerome and supper in Eden that day." Sent from Minidoka concentration camp, Idaho.

September 30, 1945

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Courtesy of the Helen Amerman Manning Collection

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