Excerpt from letter (written by an internee)

Description:

A Japanese American internee recalls seeing the internment camp at Manzanar, in California, for the first time: “[dust] creeps in through closed window ledges, creveses [sic], gets into your food and leaves a fine coating of dust over everything.” Similarly, Otsuka’s characters are interned in a dust-covered location, battling this insidious enemy.

Attribution:

Collection 3830. Japanese-American Relocation Centers Records, 1935-1953. Courtesy of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collection

Date:

November 9, 1942(Copied July 6, 1943 by War Relocation Authority personnel for inclusion in archival descriptions)