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Father's family background: born in Los Angeles

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August 6, 2013

Manzanar National Historic Site Collection

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Yoshino Grace Fukuhara Niwa

Yoshino Grace Fukuhara Niwa Interview

01:26:59 — 13 segments

August 6, 2013

Las Vegas, Nevada

Nisei female. Born October 29, 1942, in the Manzanar concentration camp, California. Daughter of well-known artists Henry Fukuhara. After leaving camp, the family moved to New York. Yoshino eventually returned to live in California, where her family resided before World War II.

Alisa Lynch, interviewer; Whitney Peterson, videographer

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