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Pauline Leah Gershanov 1920 - 2010

Pauline Leah Gershanov of Alameda, Alameda County, California was born on June 26, 1920, and died at age 89 years old on February 20, 2010.
Pauline Leah Gershanov
Alameda, Alameda County, California 94502
June 26, 1920
February 20, 2010
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  • 06/26
    1920

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    June 26, 1920
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  • 02/20
    2010

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    February 20, 2010
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    Pauline Leah Gershanov lived 11 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 89.
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In 1920, in the year that Pauline Leah Gershanov was born, on January 1, over 6000 people were arrested and put in prison because they were suspected of being communists. . Many had to be released in a few weeks and only 3 guns were found in their homes. The U.S. Department of Justice "red hunt" netted thousands of "radicals" and suspected "communists" and aliens were deported. But the "hunt" ended after Attorney General Palmer forecast a massive radical uprising on May Day and the day passed without incident.
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In 1942, Pauline was 22 years old when on February 19th, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. This authorized the Secretary of War to "prescribe certain areas as military zones." On March 21st, he signed Public Law 503 which was approved after an hour discussion in the Senate and 30 minutes in the House. The Law provided for enforcement of his Executive Order. This cleared the way for approximately 120,000 men, women, and children of Japanese ancestry to be evicted from the West Coast and to be held in concentration camps and other confinement sites across the country. In Hawaii, a few thousand were detained. German and Italian Americans in the U.S. were also confined.
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