PUYALLUP, Wash. — Hana Konishi was only 8 in the summer of 1942, but she has vivid memories of the four months she spent at the Washington State Fairgrounds in Puyallup.
”When we were here, we were in stalls, not in rooms,” said Konishi, one of the 7,500 Japanese-Americans forced to live at the fairgrounds before being shipped, by the U.S. government, to concentration camps across the west.
Konishi, her six siblings, and mother and father were forced to leave their Seattle homes.
After spending four months in Puyallup, they went to a camp in Idaho until the end of the war –
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