Llyn Kawasaki and Alice Chung

Llyn talks about her family's experience in a Japanese internment camp. She talks about the impact that had on her family and community, and then the conversation moves on to her personal history as she reaches a huge milestone -...

Oh, the places we’ve seen!

Sharon Wakamoto, an OC resident for almost 60 years, but born in Los Angeles spent a few years as a young child, during WW2 in the Japanese internment camp or War Relocation Center as it was called, at Gila Bend,...

Family story of Red Cross

The Red Cross broke into the Japanese internment camps to deliver first aid.

Eleanor Hertz, 100 years old of Bremerton, WA

Eleanor Hertz is 100 years old and has lived in Bremerton, WA her entire life. Eleanor speaks about her early childhood, living in a Navy town during WW2, including Japanese internment, the most amazing technology in her life (radio), and...

Kenneth "Yaya" Kimura: childhood interned

My grandfather Ken, who I call "yaya", talks about his childhood in the Poston Japanese internment camp. He speaks about his career in commercial art and how he met my grandmother, whose maiden name was Lynne Swisher.