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‘The war was an excuse to get rid of us’: Internment camp survivor speaks at Malibu United Methodist Church

June Aochi Berk, who recently spoke at Malibu United Methodist Church, is an internment camp survivor.

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Suzanne Guldimann, Freelance Reporter
8:55 am PST February 9, 2017

June Aochi Yamashiro Berk was 12 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the deportation and incarceration of Japanese Americans with Executive Order 9066, issued Feb. 19, 1942. 

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