Grace Morizawa

Grace Morizawa is a Sansei. Her parents met in Heart Mountain Concentration Camp, WY. Born in Los Angeles, she grew up in a Japanese American community in eastern Oregon where West Coast Japanese fled to escape incarceration. She is the Education Coordinator for the National Japanese American Historical Society.

Updated October 2018

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Return to Crystal City - story & video

  • Por Grace Morizawa
  • 2 Jan 2020

On Sunday November 3, 2019 the nearly 200 pilgrims who had attended the first official Crystal City pilgrimage, Hidden History–Justice Denied began returning home from the four-day pilgrimage. They had come from as far away points as Hawaii, Indiana, and Washington DC to renew friendships and memories with other former internees, to honor their ancestors, and to learn the story of the Crystal City Family Detention Camp.

The highlight of the pilgrimage was a daylong visit to the former Crystal City site. Throughout the pilgrimage they heard eyewitness stories that unveiled the truth; stories of U.S. government surveillance ...

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Crônicas Nikkeis #7 — Raízes Nikkeis: Mergulhando no Nosso Patrimônio Cultural

The Gift

  • Por Grace Morizawa
  • 5 Out 2018

My mother died on December 21, 1976. That Christmas was numbing. We already had the tree and gifts for my niece, but we took down the decorations. My niece was only three so it was ok with her. These days I look forward to Christmas and the whole commercial shebang. The lights, the carols, the brightly wrapped packages—all of it starting from Macy’s Christmas parade on Thanksgiving morning on TV. Some consider it crass, but I know from the Christmas when my mother died, it is the human spirit enduring the long, cold winter that is only just ...

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