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Julie Wernick and Janelle Flores are yonsei sisters via their maternal grandfather. Their great-grandfather, Kiyoshi Shimizu, initially settled in Portland, Oregon, where Julie and Janelle’s grandfather and his siblings were born and raised. During…

Fred John Sasaki, a mixed-race sansei/yonsei born and raised in Chicago, discusses the impact his father's family's incarceration at Heart Mountain and his mother's wartime experiences in Poland have shaped his identity. He reflects on the losses…

Mary Samson, a sansei born in Chicago in 1955, discusses the impact of incarceration on her parents, grandparents, and other family members and shares about her own experiences growing up in Chicago and participating in the Redress Movement. She…

Alexander Ozawa is a mixed-race Japanese American born and raised in Chicago's Northwest suburbs. His family’s history during World War II includes incarceration at Manzanar, Tule Lake, and Fort Sill. Post-incarceration, while making their way back…

Ken Oba, a Chicago-born sansei, shares memories of growing up on the South Side in the Hyde Park and Avalon Park neighborhoods. His parents, born in Los Angeles, CA and Honolulu, HI, were both incarcerated at Poston during WWII before resettling in…

Lourdes Nicholls is a fourth-generation Japanese American born and raised in California. Her maternal grandfather, Kiyotsugu Tsuchiya was one of the few Japanese Americans in the Chicagoland area prior to World War II, and after completing his…

Tom Kazumi Nakamura was born in Marysville, California in 1928. Growing up on a peach farm, Tom attended a small school in rural northern California along with his siblings. At the age of 14, Tom and his family were forced to sell their possessions…

Ethan Machida is a first-generation Japanese American born in Sapporo, Japan. His mother is American, of Scottish descent, and his father is Japanese. When he was three years old, Ethan and his family moved to the United States, to a town in northern…

Cori Nakamura Lin is a fourth generation (yonsei) Japanese American born in the Chicago suburbs. In this interview, Cori shares her concept of the river of time, how we can see our present as continuously shaped by multigenerational experiences and…

Edward Shinichi Koizumi is a shin-issei born in 1950 in Nambu, Yamanashi, Japan. Edward’s maternal grandmother and grandfather were separated during World War II, as Edward’s grandmother was traveling with her children to visit family in Japan at the…