July 26, 2025: Installation at JAMsj

1) Japanese American man in white t-shirt kneels next to an upturned table, place a wooden grip that will fasten the table to the larger wooden tabletop. 2) The same man works at the far end of the table, which is now upright and holding a vitrine with artifacts and a display of colorful children's artwork.
Jonathan creating the Topaz Toddler scrapbook and artwork display. Courtesy of Ruth Sasaki.
Four Japanese Americans (three women and a man) pose for a group photo, arms around each other. Behind them is a finished gallery exhibit of posters with photos, art, and text.
Kimi, Ruth, Susan, and Jonathan celebrate the completed installation of the Topaz Stories: Children Behind Barbed Wire Exhibit, July 23, 2025. Courtesy of Kimi Hill.

Get more information about exhibit dates and museum hours at Topaz Stories Exhibit at JAMsj.

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Media Coverage:
Watch “Utah Historians Run Exhibit on Japanese American Internment,” abc4 News, 2/19/2025).
Read “Utah Once Said ‘Never Again’–Do We Mean It? Deseret News, (2/26/2025).
Read  “Topaz Stories Exhibition: A Way to Remember the Past.”  SUU News, 2/7/2025.
Read ‘Topaz Stories’ exhibit travels Utah showing human side of WWII internment (KSL.com, May 24, 2024)
Read ‘Topaz Stories’ mines the history of a Japanese American internment camp (ParkRecord, May 18, 2024)
Read Remembering Japanese American Internment–Day of Remembrance (Rosie the Riveter Trust blog, March 24, 2024)
Read Internee’s story told with ‘Topaz Collages’ (Wheel of Dharma, Vol. 5, Issue 3, March 2023).
Watch Topaz survivors tell their stories (abc4 News, 4/22/2022) (This video appears to have been taken down, and abc4 has not responded to inquiries as to why.)
Listen to the “In the Hive” podcast with interviews with Ann Dion, Jonathan Hirabayashi, and Topaz survivors Jeanie Kashima and Joseph Nishimura (KCPW, 4/28/2022)
Read How a Utah exhibit about Topaz Camp looks to find empathy in ‘an ugly stain on American history (ksl.com, 4/22/2022)
Read “Topaz Stories rise from the dust,” (Department of Culture & Community Engagement, 4/2022)
Listen to KQED Forum, Day of Remembrance interview with Ruth Sasaki, 2/15/2022
Listen to Max Chang and Ruth Sasaki interviewed (KRCL RadioActive, 2/9/2022
Read On Topaz Stories and ‘Authentic Voice’, the Discover Nikkei interview with Ruth Sasaki (10/14/2022)
Listen to Remembering the Japanese American Incarceration, the Topaz Stories podcast with Ruth Sasaki and Jonathan Hirabayashi (6/2/2021)

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