'Topaz Stories' exhibit travels Utah showing human side of WWII internment
Stories are bridges. Or at least that's what Ruth Sasaki, editor of Topaz Stories and daughter of a WWII Japanese American internment camp survivor, thinks.
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Stories are bridges. Or at least that's what Ruth Sasaki, editor of Topaz Stories and daughter of a WWII Japanese American internment camp survivor, thinks.
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The American West Center at the University of Utah hosted a three-day symposium about the legacy of Japanese American incarceration during World War II. The event featured historians, artists and scholars sharing their perspectives on the history and memory of the camps. In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order that incarcerated...
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The incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II at the Topaz Internment Camp, a fear-based reaction could have been avoided.