Unforgotten Voices From Heart Mountain

Joanne Oppenheim, Nancy Matsumoto, James Oppenheim

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Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Inc
27 March 2023

History of the Americas; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Human rights & civil liberties law; Discrimination in employment law

"UNFORGOTTEN Voices from Heart Mountain chronicles the lives of those who lived on both sides of the barbed wire fence in a place known as Heart Mountain, a U.S. government prison camp in the harsh high desert of Wyoming during World War II. In 1941, when Japan attacked the United States, West Coast residents of Japanese ancestry-two thirds of them American-born citizens-became the ""enemy"" overnight. In a matter of months 120,000 men, women and children were imprisoned in 10 such camps, though their only crime was looking like the enemy. Told in their own words, from interviews, diaries, and letters; these are heartfelt histories told by the prisoners, those who imprisoned them, and nearby townspeople. These are personal narratives of students, teachers, young adults whose lives were on hold, those who served in the army, the WACS, and resisters who refused to serve unless their rights as citizens were restored and their families released. From Dec 7th to the post war years, Unforgotten tells the story of a little know chapter in our country's history. Illustrated with photos from family collections, archives, and newspapers. Their voices live on to warn as well as witness what happens when the foundational principles of our democracy are forgotten, and we fail to protect the civil liberties of others as well as our own.

Here are just three of the memorable voices...

""My dad, on the 7th of December 1941, couldn't understand why, as he said, the land of his birth was attacking the land of his heart."" - Hon. Norman Mineta

""When I first saw Heart Mountain, my heart sank. Bleak, scrubby, barren, desolate... somber tar-paper shacks...guard towers with armed American soldiers, guarding American prisoners.""

- Frank Hayami

""I'm afraid there's going to be some trouble if the mess hall situation isn't cleared up...they had no food for breakfast...there wasn't enough for supper, and they had been eating frankfurters for three days. - Administrator John A. Nelson Diary"

By: Joanne Oppenheim, Nancy Matsumoto
Designed by: James Oppenheim
Imprint: Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Inc
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 216mm, Spine: 12mm
Weight: 431g
ISBN: 9798987969304
Pages: 222
Publication Date: 27 March 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Joanne Oppenheim's Dear Miss Breed, True stories of the Japanese American Incarceration and a Librarian Who Made a Difference, won the Carter G. Woodson Award and NYTimes Best for Teen Age List; her Knish War on Rivington Street is the winner of the Sydney Taylor Notable Book Award and the 2018 GANYC Apple Award. Her book Have You Seen Birds? was awarded the Canada Council Children's Literature Prize. She has written more than 50 books for children, young adults and adults, including Stanley Hayami, Nisei Son. She is president of Oppenheim Toy Portfolio, a review of children's products, as well as a contributor to NBC's ""Today Show."" Nancy Matsumoto is an award-winning freelance writer. Her byline has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, People magazine, and The Los Angeles Times,, NPR, and The Toronto Globe and Mail, among other publications. She co-authored Exploring the World of Japanese Craft Sake: Rice, Water, Earth and Displaced: Manzanar 1942-1945: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans. She is the editor of By the Shore of Lake Michigan, an English-language translation of a book of tanka poetry written by her grandparents, forthcoming from UCLA's Asian American Studies Press."