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FA: Dave, can you tell me, what were the circumstances of your being taking to the assembly center? How did that all happen?

DK: Well, I was, and my family were taken to the railway station after we got that executive order, what was it? Whatever. My neighbor and her family and my other neighbor, they were German people. Their family, in fact, they provided the truck, had two luggages each, so they provided the truck and took us to the railroad station in San Jose. And there we got onto a cattle car, it was all blacked out. They told us not to ever raise the curtains. So no air conditioning, it was hot and close in those cars because the windows we couldn't open.

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DK: We were taken to the, to the train station by our neighbor, one was Mr. Beecroft and his family, and Mr. Kratz, a German family. And he provided the truck whereby we put all our luggages on, which was two suitcase per person, and went to the San Jose station of the Southern Pacific. And we got on the cars with the windows all covered, and we weren't supposed to raise the cover or look out, and we had to go to every siding every time a train come by, or freight train come by we had to relinquish the right-of-way to the coming cars. And we were supposed to go to Santa Anita, that's where we had our luggage and everything destined to go, Santa Anita. Our luggage went there and we went to Pomona. [Laughs] So we went for about a week without any change of clothes, and it was quite a mix-up there.

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