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Incarceration Years: Lordsburg/Santa Fe, Seagoville, Amache Camp Photos and DOJ Documents

Letter from family friends at Manzanar (Letter from Nagano Family to Homma Family)


Published: Feb. 18, 2007 Modified: April 11, 2025

Letter from Manzanar page 5 - Front (from Sanezumi Nagano in Manzanar to the Homma Family in Amache)

 The families were neighbors in Sawtelle, CA.    Joe Nagano, son of Sanezumi, was a JANM volunteer and my Grandfather Kyushiro Homma were friends.

Painting describes a Friday night sandstorm at Manzanar, writing that the walls leaked sand.  The families were neighbors in Sawtelle, CA.
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Letter from Nagano Family to Homma Family

Letter from Sanezumi Nagano in Manzanar to the Homma Family in Amache.  The families were neighbors in Sawtelle, CA.    Joe Nagano, was a JANM volunteer, and my Grandfather Kyushiro Homma were friends.

Painting describes a Friday night sandstorm at Manzanar, writing that the walls leaked sand.

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