USC experts describe how the prisoners used found materials like shells and ironwood to create objects of both utility and beauty — and better bear the unbearable.
The restored field at Manzanar Relocation Center celebrates the resiliency of so many prisoners and memorializes this dark period in U.S. history. Susan H. Kamei of USC Dornsife’s Spatial Sciences Institute shares their story.
Interactive exhibition will ensure that survivors’ firsthand accounts remain accessible for future generations.
Descendants of survivors helped researchers identify 279 deportees and tell their stories, giving “previously faceless victims a voice,” USC Dornsife’s Wolf Gruner writes.
USC Price’s Geraldine Knatz chronicles the rise and fall of the Los Angeles County island, including the Japanese village destroyed by the U.S. government.
The audience of more than 500 includes surviving 98-year-old soldier Yoshio Nakamura, a proud double Trojan.
