Thursday, February 23 06pm to 08pm
Japanese American Association
49 West 45th Street (between 5th and 6th Avenues), 11th Floor, New York, NY
In conjunction with the 75th anniversary of Executive Order 9066, which authorized the US Government to mass-incarcerate nearly 120,000 Japanese Americans, this event will give attendees the opportunity to learn how discrimination and intolerance directly affected the lives of Japanese Americans, and why this experience and the mistakes of the past must never be repeated.
Moderated by George Hirose, Co-President of the New York Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League, the panel will include Sam Mihara and Madeline Sugimoto.
Mihara is a second-generation Japanese American whose family was forced to move to an “American-style” concentration camp at Heart Mountain in northern Wyoming after the United States entered World War II. When they were released, the Miharas returned to San Francisco, where Sam had a very successful career as an aerospace engineer with Boeing.
Sugimoto is the daughter of renowned Japanese American artist Henry Sugimoto. She and her family were incarcerated at the Jerome and Rohwer camps in Arkansas. After the war ended, the Sugimoto family moved to New York City, where she worked for many years as a nurse educator at Cornell Medical Center. In addition to sharing her story, Sugimoto will discuss several of her father’s paintings, which were created in the camps.
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