Tad Fujita, interviewed by Sandra Taylor on October 28, 1987

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TAD FUJIT f TF: They gave us a canvass bag, a mattress, just a bag, outside was all the horse, the straw for the horse was all piled and we used that to fill our mattress. And we brought it in and there was a partition where the horse stayed in the barn and then there was a partition, and I guess there is a front one where they set the hay, b~t all that was cleaned, it was 7 whitewashed, but the odor---?---. That's where we slept for six months from April to October. So the first thing the government administration--there is a .. - lot of detail I am skipping but the first thing they start to have monitors for each building because everybody is in hysteria and they don't know what to do, and all these rumors are going on, and they needed--that administration up in the office, they won't even come down. They just try to designate a captain for each barrack, and these were called house managers. So I w.a-a- being older and I am bilingual-­you have got 't o remember there were about six to eight thousand people there, and it was all divided. Then since the ~war started in December, and we were evacuated in April, so that's four months that they had to fix up this Tanforan to make into a city because six thousand to eight thousand is a lot of people. They cleaned up all the horse stalls and 8