Camps, as in concentration?

[Frances Morey]

 Now there's a story that needs writing, Pepi.
Frances

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pepi Plowman" <pepstoil at yahoo.com>
To: "survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s"
<austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 11:58 AM
Subject: Re: Stockholm syndrome?


> Correct.  I and my older sister were born in different
> camps.
>
> But my mother still loved Japan--lived there for seven
> years before the war and three 30 years later.  She
> had many Japanese friends.
>
> But when she lapsed into Alzheimer's in her latter ten
> years, her stays in nursing homes were characterized
> by her awakening every morning totally disoriented as
> to where she was, donning every dress she owned one on
> top of another, muttering, "Got to go to the jungle.
> The Japanese are coming.  Got to go to the jungle."
> before attempting to exit and being caught by the
> nurses in attendance.  She was crazy to get out--would
> bite and kick--I think she was plenty scared of the
> Japanese in those camps, and have no doubt the
> experience contributed to the Alzheimer's.
>
> pep
> --- Michael Eisenstadt <michaele at hotpop.com> wrote:
> > > His last wife and he both had alcohol problems and
> > the
> > > last I saw of them they didn't seem very happy.
> > My
> > > sister was devastated by his death.  My mother,
> > who
> > > was a Japanophile...
> >
> > Pepi,
> >
> > Your mother was interned by the Japanese during WW
> > II. I remember her talking about it at one of her
> > parties.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >