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Primary Source Analysis: Joy Nozaki Gee
The first primary source I found was an interview from manymountains.org.
The women that was interviewed was on February 2, 2002 was Joy Nozaki Gee, daughter of Kiyoshi "Semita" Nozaki, at her home in Sacramento, California. Gee talks about how her father, Mr. Nozaki, had earned his Master's degree is Literature from the University of Washington and was a poetic writer. Nozaki was teaching Japanese in Arroyo Grande, California. When he became imprisoned at an internment camp in New Mexico, Mr. Nozaki was in charge of supplies for the internees, he would issue himself new socks instead of washing them. Gee became head of her household after her father was arrested. After the war was over, the family was sent to Japan where they found the living

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