A free event to commemorate and recognize the 81st anniversary of the wartime forced removal of people of Japanese ancestry from South Puget Sound takes place at the Washington State History Museum on May 18.

Explore the exhibition Resilience: A Sansei Sense of Legacy, featuring Sansei (third generation) Japanese American artists’ responses to Executive Order 9066 and its subsequent impacts, You will have a chance to work with local artists to create your own object of remembrance.

The museum will also screen the documentary film Sansei Granddaughters’ Journey, followed by a brief group procession to Union Station to remember the Japanese American community that were forced to report there for evacuation. The evening will conclude with a preview of the digital exhibit Tacoma Japantown with writer and public historian Tamiko Nimura.

For more information visit: South Sound Day of Remembrance – Washington State Historical Society (washingtonhistory.org)

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