In 1942, Executive Order 9066 laid the foundation for the mass removal
and subsequent incarceration of over 125,000 Japanese and Japanese
Americans. The federal government built ten concentration camps
throughout the interior of the country where they incarcerated the
majority of the Japanese Americans removed from the West Coast. This
year marks the 80th anniversary of the closure of the camps. Join
IKARite Brian Rosenbaum, Kristen Hayashi (Curator and Director of
Collections at the Japanese American National Museum), and J.A.N.M.
community members, whose family members were incarcerated, for a
discussion about this shameful moment in US history, the echoes of which