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MA: And how did you first hear about the removal, that you were gonna be sent to camps?

IO: Huh?

MA: How did you first hear about the camps, that you would be sent away?

IO: Well, we saw 'em on the posts, the telephone poles, about the order that we had to be at a certain spot, certain day. And then they told us what we can have, carry, but we didn't have very much to take.

MA: What happened with your house and your possessions?

IO: There was a, we were renting the house. And then we stored the stuff to the family next door, the black family that we kind of got friendly with. And that's all I remember. But we didn't get anything back, you know, it was all gone.

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