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Manzanar National Historic Site Collection
Title: Dorothy Kuwaye Interview
Narrator: Dorothy Kuwaye
Interviewer: Richard Potashin
Location: Los Angeles, California
Date: May 13, 2010
Densho ID: denshovh-kdorothy-01-0013

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RP: Do you still have contact with the Lanfear family?

DK: With the, with her grandson who is in New Mexico now. But just occasionally he'll call or I'll call him.

RP: What, you said that the boys were going to college --

DK: Uh-huh.

RP: -- before the war, about the time that you were actually taken in by the family.

DK: Right, right, uh-huh.

RP: Did they, did they go into the military during the war? Do you know what happened to them?

DK: No. They didn't go in, huh? I don't know...

Off Camera: They're, they're past the, the age limit I think, right?

DK: No, they wouldn't have been under in the war huh? Because that was, they were both married. I don't know why. They, I don't think they did go into the service at all.

RP: Were you able to keep in touch with them a little bit?

DK: Yeah, oh, yeah. Not, not frequent, but every once in a while, yeah.

RP: They visited you at Pomona and you said you had some correspondence with them from Heart Mountain. Did you --

DK: Not the boys.

RP: The, the...

DK: The Lanfears, yeah, yeah. Uh-huh, yeah.

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