Densho Digital Archive
Manzanar National Historic Site Collection
Title: Sumiko Sakai Kozawa Interview
Narrator: Sumiko Sakai Kozawa
Interviewer: Richard Potashin
Location: Los Angeles, California
Date: May 10, 2011
Densho ID: denshovh-ksumiko-01-0012

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RP: Were, working at the hospital, were you short on certain things, supplies?

SK: I think we were. I think we were, but I don't know what. Yeah, many things, I know we, many things, we were. And many things disappeared too.

RP: Like what do you recall?

SK: I don't know, there was, one time there was something that this, he was one of the, our boss, he said, "Oh goodness, that's gone again." He was saying, "That's gone again." So I don't know what it was, but, and he used to, of course he had to lock everything up there, but somehow things did disappear, though, from the lab. I know one time we had, we had a bunch of soldiers. We had to get their Wassermanns, so we did all that. That was interesting, though.

RP: Soldiers, were those the military police?

SK: Yeah, military -- no, they were regular soldiers, army soldiers. I didn't know why they came to Manzanar to get all their shots or their blood taken, but we did. That must've been, goodness, quite a few then.

RP: We talked earlier about Dr. Togasaki.

SK: Yeah, Dr. Togasaki.

RP: What do you recall about her?

SK: She was, she's, must've been a good doctor, but she didn't stay very long. But people were all a little bit afraid of her, I think. Somehow they were. Yeah, it's the way she... she was a real army doctor, I tell you. [Laughs] Yeah, she was, with boots on. I think her heart could be very... but she used to frighten people.

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