Pilgrimage to the Past

Pilgrimages to the Japanese American incarceration sites are crucial to preserve and honor those who survived the unjust racism and fear-mongering during WWII. It allows learning about America's racist history and how we can learn to prevent this from happening again. It also provides descendants of former incarcerees to heal and understand their family history better.

In December 1969, a group of Nisei and Sansei activists traveled to the Manzanar site to restore and preserve the cemetery, thus creating the first organized pilgrimage to a U.S. concentration camp. As of 2018, there are annual pilgrimages to five of the ten sites.

When co-founders of Japanese American Memorial Pilgrimages (JAMP) Kimiko Marr and Marissa Fujimoto created JAMP, they knew how crucial it was to capture these stories. Both having family in camps, they understand what it's like to crave to understand their familial histories. Now is a vital time to record these stories, and thus even more necessary to have these pilgrimages.


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