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TI: So from Jerome, you said you had to go to Rohwer. Why did you go from Jerome, the Jerome camp to the Rohwer camp?

EN: They closed it up and put us all together in Rohwer. I don't know what they did with that, all those buildings, but they put us in Rohwer. Forever moving. Then we had to get on the train and come back home. [Laughs]

YN: I remember Fumio went to Chicago, remember? When we were in camp.

EN: The oldest brother.

TI: And why did he go to Chicago?

EN: To work.

TI: So he went to go get a job.

YN: He worked in a factory, I think. He went there and he got stolen, huh, his wallet and his shoe at night. What was that? Wasn't it a colored person?

EN: Yeah.

YN: He had that bad experience.

TI: So when you hear about things like that, what did you think about the world out there, I mean, Chicago?

YN: Yeah, I didn't think too much about Chicago after I heard that.

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