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Cliff Bender

Cliff Bender started translating in 1981, and translated mostly technical documents, starting with sewing machine repair manuals and then patent applications for over 30 years, and retired from translation in January 2020. Timed perfectly with the start of the Covid pandemic, there was now time for a more interesting subject -- history.

IJET-33 Sessions:
[Pre-IJET Friday] Letters After Incarceration [Requires Separate Ticket]

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[Pre-IJET Friday] Letters After Incarceration [Requires Separate Ticket]

In spring 2019, Cliff received a box of letters found in a filing cabinet in the local historical society. Written in Japanese, they were unrelated to our local history. With a family number luggage tag and military censor stamps, they were obviously linked to the camps in which Japanese American immigrants and citizens were "relocated" and incarcerated during WWII. Who was the recipient? After...

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