Dr. Julia Maestas is the granddaughter of Manuel Maestas, a homesteader at Los Alamos, and daughter of Elipio Maestas, who worked as a civil guard for the Corps of Engineers at Los Alamos. She attended first grade at Los Alamos in an Army building during the Manhattan Project.
Julia Maestas
ChildLos Alamos, NM
Hispano/a
Listen to Julia Maestas’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project