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Washington State Fair's ‘Remembrance Gallery’ highlights dark past of fairgrounds
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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.
Read more: https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/washington-state-fair-remembrance-gallery/281-10bf1062-ba00-455d-9328-485bc91a0de9