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DESCRIPTION:Communities Transformed: Families from Seattle Share Stories of
  the Internment\nSaturday\, January 21\, 2006 -- 2:00 PM\n<a href="http://
 www.janm.org/">Japanese American National Museum</a>\n\nJoin us for a conv
 ersation with authors this Saturday afternoon - each presenting a differen
 t perspective on the experience of leaving the Pacific Northwest for Minid
 oka during World War II.\n\nVaried in style\, authors Mary Matsuda Gruenew
 ald\, David A. Neiwert\, and Toshiko Shoji Ito share poignant stories born
  from the diverse experiences of Japanese American individuals and communi
 ties from Seattle during World War II.\n\n<i>Looking Like the Enemy: My St
 ory of Imprisonment in Japanese American Internment Camps</i> by Mary Mats
 uda Gruenewald is an autobiographical account of Gruenewald and her family
 ’s incarceration at Minidoka\, Idaho. Gruenewald captures the emotional 
 and psychological essence of what it was like to grow up in the midst of p
 rofound dislocation and injustice\, and of struggle for survival\, growing
  up in the midst of profound dislocation and injustice. \n\n<i>Strawberry 
 Days: How Internment Destroyed a Japanese American Community</i> by David 
 A. Neiwert tells a moving tale of the creation and destruction of Bellevue
 \, Washington\, a Japanese immigrant community renowned for its strawberry
  farms. Combining compelling storytelling\, interviews\, and newly uncover
 ed documents\, Neiwert weaves together the community’s history and the r
 acist schemes that prevented the immigrants from reclaiming their land aft
 er the war.  \n\n<i>Endure</i> by Toshiko Shoji Ito is a story of courage 
 and triumph based loosely on Ito’s experiences. The novel follows 17-yea
 r-old\, Tomi\, who was forced to leave a carefree life in Seattle for Mini
 doka. Tomi’s indomitable spirit prevails\, despite the burden of shame t
 hat her familylike so many othersshouldered because of their unjust incarc
 eration.\n\nModerated by Lisa Itagaki.  Book signing to follow.\n
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SUMMARY:Communities Transformed: Families from Seattle Share Stories of the
  Internment (Saturday\, January 21 - Los Angeles)
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