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Sam Mihara, who was imprisoned at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center as a 9-year-old boy during World War II, will share his recollections of the experience during a Zoom talk at 1:30 p.m. on May …
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Sam Mihara, who was imprisoned at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center as a 9-year-old boy during World War II, will share his recollections of the experience during a Zoom talk at 1:30 p.m. on May 5. Teachers will need to register their classes by 5 p.m. on May 4 to participate. The session will also be livestreamed on YouTube.
Students in grades seven through 12 are encouraged to watch Mihara’s 60-minute presentation and submit questions through the chat box.
In 1942, the U.S. government decided to remove all people of Japanese ancestry from the West Coast and place them into desolate prison camps. Mihara and his family, who lived in San Francisco, were among 120,000 Japanese Americans forced by armed military soldiers to move to the camps. He spent three years at Heart Mountain.
For more information, contact Rob Black at 307-777-3747 or rob.black1@wyo.gov.
