On February 19, 1942 Executive Order 9066 authorized the incarceration of almost 120,000 Japanese Americans. Join storyteller Anne Shimojima as she shares the inspiring story of her family's journey from Japan and through their time in internment camps where innocent people were locked up behind barbed wire. Shimojima illustrates her talk with photos from her family and the National Archives, showing a family whose only crime was looking like the enemy.

Anne Shimojima has been telling stories from her Asian heritage and around the world for over thirty years at festivals, schools, libraries, museums, and senior communities. She was a New Voice Teller at the National Storytelling Festival in 2017 and you can hear some of her favorite Japanese folk tales on her award-winning CD, Sakura Tales: Stories from Japan. 

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