Grace Izuhara
Tessaku
English - August 05, 2018 07:00 - 17 minutes - 7.98 MB - ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsSociety & Culture History japanese american wwii history internment camp japanese american history japanese internment camp japanese incarceration west coast nikkei Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Grace Izuhara was five years old and living in Los Angeles when WWII broke out. And rather than go to camp, her family chose to avoid it by leaving their home and signing up for a farm labor program to harvest a vital wartime staple: sugar beets. But unlike other Japanese Americans who were children during the war and had opportunities to play together, she has few happy memories: She was bullied at school, and remembers that when her younger brother had an accident, nearly every emergency room they went to refused to care for him. In the years following the war, her father was so upset by the experience that he never voted in another election.
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