Densho Digital Archive
Raechel Donahue and Garrett Lindemann Collection
Title: Ann Fujikawa Interview
Narrator: Ann Fujikawa
Interviewer: Raechel Donahue
Location:
Date: 2010
Densho ID: denshovh-fann-01-0004

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RD: And how was it when you came out? Did you go back home?

AF: We went to Berkeley, we stayed at a church, and we there for a number of months, and then we went to the housing area, Richmond housing area in Richmond, California.

RD: So I didn't know there had been... oh, was it like a halfway house in Richmond?

AF: We lived in the church in Berkeley for a while and then we went to the... it was a housing for the ship workers. So that's where we went to.

RD: Oh, right. Some people went to Hunter's Point, and some people... so that's why they put them in the shipyards.

AF: The housing.

RD: And how many members were in your family?

AF: There were six besides our parents.

RD: Oh, then you were all in one room?

AF: Uh-huh.

RD: Wow. And did your parents, were they renters or did they own anything? Did they lose anything?

AF: No, we were renting, the home was being rented in Berkeley, so we didn't have a home to come back to. And so when we stayed at the church, we stayed there for a while and then went to the housing in Richmond and stayed there for a few years.

RD: And, you know, everybody had to give away their radios and everything.

AF: Yes, uh-huh.

RD: Did you have to give anything up?

AF: Oh, my father, my parents just left things there in the house. I don't remember... my father had a car and I don't remember what happened.

RD: Some people actually drove their cars to Santa Anita voluntarily.

AF: That's what I understand, yes.

RD: And the government burned them?

AF: I don't know what happened to all our belongings.

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