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Manzanar National Historic Site Collection
Title: Toshiko Aiboshi Interview
Narrator: Toshiko Aiboshi
Interviewer: Richard Potashin
Location: Culver City, California
Date: January 20, 2011
Densho ID: denshovh-atoshiko-01-0003

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RP: So what did you do at Santa Anita to pass the time? Because there was no schools.

TA: Then after a while, maybe a month or two, they said there's going to be a temporary school in the grandstand. And I liked school, so I said, "Oh, that's nice." So we went to that school and we sat on the grandstand seats, and they were teaching something like English grammar or something of that sort, by other people who are just internees who thought that the children should have at least some organized activity. And so this, I don't think we learned anything. There was no library. I was used to going to a library every weekend and getting seven books and reading one on the way home, so I was used to doing that, and there was nothing to read. Some of my friends from school did write, and so we did get, have some communication, so that was kind of nice.

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