november 2017
18nov(nov 18)3:00 pmSharing Stories, Chieko Kimura and Atsumi Ozawa3:00 pm
Time
saturday, november 18, 3:00PM
Event Details
During World War II, the United States deported thousands of Japanese, Germans and Italians from various Latin American countries and placed them into integrated U.S. internment camps. Chieko Kimura and
Event Details
During World War II, the United States deported thousands of Japanese, Germans and Italians from various Latin American countries and placed them into integrated U.S. internment camps. Chieko Kimura and Atsumi Ozawa were respectively seven and sixteen years old when they were deported with their father from Yuancayo, Peru and shipped to a camp in Crystal City, Texas. Like other Department of Justice camps, Crystal City was operated by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), the agency that President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized to oversee such prison camps. Kimura and Ozawa were incarcerated with their family for three years before being released to Seabrook Farms, New Jersey where they lived before settling in Chicago.