Honoring my grandparents at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) in Los Angeles. 🇯🇵🇺🇸
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2024
- Honoring my grandparents by stamping their names in the Ireichō at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) in Los Angeles.
The Ireichō is a book that records-for the first time ever-a comprehensive listing of over 125,000 persons of Japanese ancestry who were unjustly incarcerated during WWII.
Visitors will be able to view the names and use a special Hanko (stamp or seal) to leave a mark as a way to honor those incarcerated by WWII.
It’s a way for the community to ensure that the identities of incarcerated individuals are acknowledged and remembered.
Surrounding the book are wooden tablets with the names of 75 US internment and concentration camp locations and jars of soil from each camp hanging above it.
Timed-entry reservations to view the Ireichō can be made online through JANM’s website.
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I wish they had recorded the names in Japanese too. The same Surname can be written in multiple ways, and that helps with identification of regional origin, etc. But I do understand they chose to be American.
This disturbs me that it even happened.
They should have them in alphabetical order, It was too much trying to find my two great uncles who were brought here from Peru.
Oh no! When I went we had to make an appointment and someone looked up our family’s names in advance. If you’re still having trouble finding their names, I’d reach out to JANM! They’re super helpful especially when it comes to finding family who were in the camps.
@remishimazu thank you. Yes I was there last weekend but I'm back in Miami now. I'll make an appointment next time.
@@remishimazuthanks for the fantastic video. It deserves millions of views. It disturbs me that the internments happened. If citizens of German heritage had been put in camps there would have been an uproar.