by Julia Park, photos by Alex Garland
The forced removal of Japanese Americans into incarceration camps after President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 affected thousands of families including both Issei — Japanese-born immigrants — and their Nisei children born in the United States.
Now, as the oldest generation of Japanese Americans incarcerated during WWII is largely gone, their descendants are carrying the memory of the camps forward. More than 80 years later, the struggle is how to preserve the integrity of the story when each generation’s memory of the camps is different.
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