Densho Digital Archive
Densho Visual History Collection
Title: Fumiko M. Noji Interview
Narrator: Fumiko M. Noji
Interviewer: Dee Goto
Location: Bellevue, Washington
Date: April 22, 1998
Densho ID: denshovh-nfumiko-01-0033

<Begin Segment 33>

DG: And you said that you didn't stay too long.

FN: No, we didn't stay in Tule too long.

DG: Okay, and why was that?

FN: Well the opportunity came when they said that those who wanted to go out can go if they had a, a family or a relative.

DG: And, there was no question on your part that you wanted to leave.

FN: No, there wasn't. We, we thought well as long as, oh of course my brother Ken as I mentioned before, he worked in the hospital and he wasn't just cleaning and things. But he worked in a hospital in Emmett. And so he, he, he was living there for quite a while so he got this home that we first moved into when we got there.

DG: Okay, so now, he didn't ever go to camp?

FN: No, he went to camp.

DG: He, but he left ear --

FN: Well, they were among the very first to leave.

DG: Okay.

FN: He and his wife.

DG: And then so he settled in Emmett which is Idaho.

FN: In Emmett. From there he, he went in, he went into the army.

DG: Okay, so Ken and his wife had settled in Emmett. And so he found a house for you?

FN: He found a house, a house.

DG: And then your husband still had not joined you.

FN: But, he...

DG: He never came to Tule though.

FN: I don't, you know I don't even. Isn't that terrible, I don't recall that he ever came to. I don't believe he did come to...

DG: Okay.

FN: Uh-huh.

<End Segment 33> - Copyright © 1998 Densho. All Rights Reserved.