Roughly 10,000 Japanese Americans were sent to Manzanar War Relocation Center in eastern California, one of ten confinement camps set up in the wake of Executive Order 9066. Aurenheimer was a member of a Mennonite church in Reedley, California, with many members who opposed Japanese American removal and supported Japanese Americans upon their return to Reedley.
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