America’s Story: Japanese American Experience. Presentation by Saburo and Marion Masada
Saburo and Marion Masada recount their story growing up in the incarceration camps during World War II and life before and after the war. They also tell the larger story of Japanese Americans incarcerated during World War II in general.
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