Topaz Stories and the Friends of Topaz Museum present:
The Lost Sketches of Topaz: Ella Honderich’s Topaz Years
Sunday, October 13, 2024, 2-3:30 pm
J-Sei, 1285 66th St., Emeryville, CA
Ella Honderich was a Swedish immigrant and artist who created about 80 sketches of daily life in Topaz while living there from 1942-45. Her granddaughter, Cynthia Wright, will join us to share her search for her family history and her grandmother’s sketches. She will be joined by Ruth Sasaki, Kimi Hill and other special guests with links to the sketches.
The event will be held in person and on Zoom, and is free and open to the public. Register any time before the day of the event to ensure that you get a Zoom link. In-person registration is also requested at the same link so we can estimate attendance. Thank you!
Funding for this event has been provided by the Topaz Museum and California Wellness Foundation.
Many thanks to J-Sei for their collaboration on this project.
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)