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LH: So going again to your life in camp, how did your mother sort of adjust to life in camp and having these children in camp?

FG: My mother, I don't know. Very resilient and I think she adjusted. She adjusted to anything, but anyway she did, when she was in camp, she got a job.

LH: Where did she get a job?

FG: She cleaned out the, she became a cleaning woman in the restrooms. She was a person that didn't like to sit still and so she had to be doing something so she got the job of cleaning out the sinks and the bathhouse and stuff.

LH: So how did she like to --

FG: Some of the people worked in the kitchen, but my mother worked in the laundry room and bathroom, the restroom.

LH: So she got a job to sort of fill her time, but how did she explain to you what was going on in camp or did she explain to you or was it just...

FG: I just kind of -- I guess as far as the war is concerned I think I just kind of osmosis. I think that's how I learned it, osmosis. I heard it from, all over, you know, from other people. But, otherwise, I knew there was a war going on.

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