"Witness to History" Talk

When Sam Mihara was 9 years old, Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. Soon after, Sam and his family were forced from their San Francisco home and moved to a desolate prison camp in Wyoming. They were among 120,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast imprisoned by the U.S. government. Today Sam tours the country telling the story of what he experienced during three years of incarceration. Over 100,000 people have heard his moving presentation, which includes photographs from renowned photographer Dorothea Lange and the Mihara family collection that vividly illustrate this dark time in the nation’s history. His purpose: to deter similar human rights abuses in the future.