Time of Remembrance 2012
Prisoners and Patriots: The Untold Story of Japanese Internment in Santa Fe”
Neil Simon, producer, spent nearly five years bringing to light this important piece of U.S. History that shares the stories of 4,555 Japanese men held in a Department of Justice Incarceration Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, during World War II. This 91 minutes documentary is based on exclusive interviews in California, Oregon and Hawaii with the camp’s last living survivors. Most of the men, held in the center from 1942 to six months after war’s end, were community leaders, teachers, Buddhist ministers and others who the government feared would rally and organize the Japanese community.
Saturday, February 18, 2012, at 1:00 p.m. at the Secretary of State’s Auditorium, 1500 11th Street, Sacramento, CA (free Museum parking across the street, north of the building)
Donation: $15.00/person for adults, $10.00 for students over 18, and FREE for students under 18. For additional information: www.nctor.org or Sacramento: (916) 427-2841, or 447-0231, Lodi: (209) 478-2499, and Placer County: (916) 508-6587.
“Time of Remembrance Discovery Program: The Japanese American Experience”, is a multi-media educational program where students learn about the Japanese American experience during World War II from those who lived it. This powerful program includes a walk through a re-creation of an incarceration camp barrack, see the replica guard tower and hear personal stories from volunteers of Japanese ancestry. For eight weeks, students from throughout Northern California explore concepts such as citizenship, constitutionality, and redress.
STUDENT EDUCATION PROGRAM: January 30 – March 23, 2012, California Museum for History, Women and the Arts, 10th and O Streets, Sacramento, CA.
For information or to schedule student group’s contact: Shelly Heyes or Bernadette Montez at 916-654-1729 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
The NCTOR and its educational partners, California Museum for History, Women and the Arts, Elk Grove Unified School District, and the California State University, Sacramento, Library, Special Collections, plan these activities in remembrance of the signing of Executive Order 9066, which suspended due process and resulted in the unjust incarceration of 120,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry into America’s concentration centers during World War II.
PLATINUM SPONSOR: DELEGATA – SOLUTIONS WITHOUT BORDERS – KAIS MENOUFY
The California Museum
We cannot afford to repeat the mistakes of the past...
The tragedy of September 11th and the increase of hate crimes in the aftermath against innocent persons because of their ethnic identity demonstrate the importance of studying the experience of Japanese Americans. After Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, the U.S. interned 120,000 persons of Japanese ancestry, denying their basic civil rights. We cannot afford to repeat the mistakes of the past by allowing war hysteria and lack of understanding to deny anyone their basic rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution.
The mass imprisonment of persons with Japanese ancestry during World War II challenged the very foundation of our democratic society. The California State Board of Education in its Model Curriculum for Human Rights and Genocide stated that “there is no more urgent task for educators in the field of history and social science than to teach students about the importance of human rights” and that we must “acknowledge unflinchingly the instances in U.S. history when our own best ideals were betrayed by the systematic mistreatment of group members because of their race, religion, culture, language, gender or political views.” We are a strong nation of immigrants, and our ancestors come from many cultures.
The purpose of this event, “The Japanese American Experience in California,” at the California Museum for History, Women and the Arts is to give students an opportunity to hear first-hand stories from Japanese Americans who were in the internment camps. The California Museum for History, Women and the Arts offers this program in partnership with the Florin, Lodi, Marysville, Placer, Sacramento, and Stockton Japanese American Citizens League, California State University Sacramento Archives and Special Collections, and the Elk Grove Unified School District. We need to teach students that although the strongest protection for human rights is fundamental in our democratic nation, mistakes are made. It is the responsibility of citizens to challenge those in positions of power in the government and not allow unfair treatment or practices to continue. The significance of this study goes beyond the treatment of Japanese Americans. When the constitutional rights of one group of citizens are violated, all Americans are affected.
Marielle Tsukamoto
Florin Japanese American Citizens League
Time of Remembrance Education Project Chairman
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