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Today many people throw around the term survivor. They claim to be the survivor of algebra or of a visit from their great Aunt Myrtle. However in the years following the second world war the word survivor meant so much more. It described the thousands of Jews and Japanese American’s who lived through the horror of internment.

Between the years of 1939 and 1945 thousands of people were taken from their homes and relocated beginning what for many would be a lifelong journey full of guilt and unresolved issues. As Jeanne (Toyo) Wakatsuki Houston said “… everything that had happened to me since we left camp referred back to it, in one way or another.”

The time spent in the work camps of the Holocaust and the relocation centers of the US shaped a generation and stays with us even today, reverberating through the fabric of America showing us what it truly meant to be a survivor and in some cases a hero.

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 * Anne