First Person: Ruth Sasaki on Remembering Japanese Internment
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Your Father's Mother Lived in Hiru Shima
There was in your archive, there's a telegram from your father's mother, who lived near horoshima. At the time, the red cross was forwarding telegrams to people who had been incarcerated. People in japan did not know how to reach their relatives, family members or friends. Butye they did re establish and stay in touch with some of their network from the san francisco area. The terrible irony is it's my dad's mother who did not survive the war, because she lived in hiru shima.
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