Japanese American Internment Camp Survivor

July 19, 2019 – In 1941, during her fourth birthday party in Seattle, Nikki Nojima Louis saw her father arrested by FBI agents. It was December 7 and the Japanese had just bombed Pearl Harbor. Her father was an immigrant from Japan and he ended up in detention camps in New Mexico. Nojima Louis and her mother were interned in Idaho. They were among 120,000 Japanese Americans rounded up and incarcerated during World War II in facilities across the West. Nojima Louis now lives in Albuquerque and is artistic director for the New Mexico Japanese American Citizens League Players. Recently she traveled to Oklahoma to join a protest with other survivors of internment in Word War II at Fort Sill. It was used to incarcerate Japanese men, including Buddhist monks, during the war. Now there are plans to house young migrants there who crossed the border. On this episode she speaks with NMIF correspondent Megan Kamerick about why she decided to travel to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, to add her voice to the protest.

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