Topaz Stories 2024: Zoom Recordings

A Japanese American woman and a Caucasian woman sit in chairs, each with a microphone in hand, looking toward a screen, which shows a sketch of a family in side a room, engaged in various activities.
“The Lost Sketches of Topaz”: Kimi Hill and Cynthia Wright discuss “The Dressmaker,” a Topaz sketch by Cynthia’s grandmother, Ella Honderich. Oct. 13, 2024. Photo by Ruth Sasaki.
Two U.S. Army photos of young JA soldiers in uniform. Next to photo of Thomas Sagimori, the text "KIA -- 4/5/1945, Monte Folgorito, Italy." Next to John Harano, "KIA - 10/29/1944, rescue of the'Lost Battalion,' France.
We shared a photo montage of a few Nisei veterans of WWII in our November 7 program, “Soldiers’ Stories.” Shown here: Thomas Sagimori. Photo courtesy of Wendy Ng. John Harano. Photo courtesy of the Harano family.
Four images of Japanese American women in their 60s-90s, speaking at a podium while a screen shows images of a pre-WWII family, San Mateo in the 1940s, a family home in Oakland, and a painting of a desert with mountains in the background.
“Return to California”: Kaz Iwahashi, Shoshana Arai, Gay Kaplan and Meri Mitsuyoshi share stories of post-war resettlement on Nov. 23, 2024. Photos courtesy of Kimi Hill.

Thanks to Jill Shiraki for squeezing this into her packed schedule!

The Topaz Stories Team

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Media Coverage:
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)
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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