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JS: So earlier you were saying that you've been to four? You were interned at four different places during the war?

BK: Uh-huh.

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JS: So during camp, or after the evacuation, and you said that you're going to write a book and that you were at four different places, can you describe that a little bit? Where you went?

BK: Well, the first... to me, it's still a concentration camp. The first camp was in Walerga, which is in North Sacramento. And then from there, we were sent to Tule Lake, and we were there for, I think, about a year or a little over a year. And then we got sent, during the segregated camp stuff, we got sent to Jerome. And then after Jerome, because we heard that Jerome was gonna close, we moved to Rohwer. And by that time, you know, my brothers were in the service, my sister and my older brother, they were in Chicago, so I was the oldest and had to take care of all these things, and I don't know how I did it. And my mother said, "You do the best you can and we'll try to help." And being that, you know, she spoke enough English, that made it a little easier.

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