Session

In spring 2019, Cliff received a box of letters found in a filing cabinet in the local historical society. Written in Japanese, they were unrelated to our local history. With a family number luggage tag and military censor stamps, they were obviously linked to the camps in which Japanese American immigrants and citizens were "relocated" and incarcerated during WWII. Who was the recipient? After locating a son of the author of the most numerous letters, Cliff undertook translating his mother's letters. The letters can only be understood in the context of the camps, so we will start with Executive Order 9066, compliance with and resistance to the Order, the camps, particularly Manzanar and Heart Mountain, and then some of the problems and puzzles to be solved for translation.

[This session takes place on Friday, May 9 and requires a separate IJET-33 Friday: TGIF Meeting Ticket to attend. More information can be found here.]