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The Japanese Americans were first sent to places called Relocation centers where the Japanese families waited to get “placed�.

My family was sent to the Relocation Center located at the Tulare Fair Grounds. Each family (no matter how many there were) was allowed one horse stall. The temperatures inside of the horse stalls would reach over a hundred degrees at times.

My father was one year old when he entered the camp and my aunt was actually born there. My Grandma and Grandpa from my mother’s side were married inside of the camp.

From the Relocation Centers they were shipped to the actual camps. They were transported my trains with blackened windows so they couldn’t see where they were going.