Jonathan Hirabayashi and Joe Yoshino, Topaz descendants, both attended the Topaz Stories reception on April 22.
But they have more than that in common: Jonathan’s mother, Shizu Mitsuyoshi, and Joe’s parents, Joe and Jean Yoshino, were all captured in this iconic Dorothea Lange photograph of Japanese Americans from the East Bay waiting in line for the evening meal at Tanforan Assembly Center in 1942.