Yukio Shimomura: My 2.5 Years behind Barbed Wire in the US During WWII

During WWII, more than 110,000 people were incarcerated after the attack on Pearl Harbor, from tiny infants to the elderly. This is a snapshot of one family’s experience. Yukio Shimomura, a former Corvallis resident,  shares his family’s experience during the 1940s when WWII started , including the effects of Executive Order 9066 on his family, from leaving San Francisco and entering the incarceration camps, first at the Tanforan Race Track in San Bruno then to the camp near Topaz, Utah. 

Shimomura will also explore how their incarceration impacted all of the members of his family, from his grandmother to his parents to his older brothers and himself.

Everyone is welcome at this free event.