held captive against their will by barbed-wire fences and armed sentries.

Heart Mountain board member Sam Mihara told a national audience during the 51st Jefferson Lecture for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) on Feb.and Mihara knew each other as children in San Francisco before the war.

said human rights abuses such as the Japanese American incarceration could happen again if there is a toxic combination of hatred.000 people in presentations around the county over the last 15 years.Mihara said at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM) in Los Angeles.

000 Japanese Americans during World War II.who was forced with his family from his home in San Francisco and into the War Relocation Authority camp at Heart Mountain.

Mihara was introduced by Heart Mountain Chair Shirley Ann Higuchi and Ann Burroughs.

He was selected to present the lecture by NEH Chair Shelly Lowe after she watched one of his presentations at last years Heart Mountain Pilgrimage.It is important for us to preserve the past to create a strong future.

Historic Wintersburg includes one of the last standing original churches from that era as well as the site of the Furuta Goldfish Farm.The Wintersburg Historic District showcases communities cooperating.

it was not sustained and almost forgotten until the late Mary Adams Urashima began to revive interest in the site.The 1910 manse and mission burned down in 2022.