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Title: Fumiko Uyeda Groves Interview
Narrator: Fumiko Uyeda Groves
Interviewer: Larry Hashima
Location: Seattle, Washington
Date: June 16, 1998
Densho ID: denshovh-gfumiko-01-0015

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LH: And going to that experience of you going to your camps, how did you hear about the fact that you were actually going to be moved from Seattle?

FG: The notice was posted on the telephone poles all over the place, and so we read it. And I'm sure that the people in the community talked about it and our neighbors also talked about it. And I know the kids in the neighborhood they were all hakujin, but they, some of the older ones read it to me just in case I couldn't read it. Kind of big words in it.

LH: So what did they explain to you when they were reading it to you?

FG: Well, first of all one of the first things that was read to me was a curfew that we had to be in, we couldn't be wandering around in the streets after... what time?

LH: Eight?

FG: Something like that. And then the other one was the evacuation. And those are two that were posted on the telephone poles. I remember that. And it all kind of happened very quickly. And so as soon as they were posted then people started either selling their, selling the goods out of their homes or trying to think of places to put their belongings because then it said that we would not be allowed, we'd only be able to carry one suitcase or something like that.

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