Jan 09 2009
Shelby County Reads Lecture: February 8, 2009
| February 8, 2009 | ||
| 2:00 pm |
Shelby County Reads will host a lecture on February 8, 2009 at 200pm.
What: Lecture with Jean Umemura
Where: The Strand Theatre 215 S. Harrison St. Shelbyville, IN 46176
When:Sunday, Feb. 8; 2pm
Who:This is open to the public. No reservations necessary. Free will donations will benefit Jean’s charity of choice: The Salvation Army of Shelbyville.
Jean and her husband, George, are Japanese Americans who were in Japanese Internment camps in the U.S. during World War II. Both were uprooted from their homes and forced to leave most of their belongings behind when they were teens. Jean and her family were evacuated from their home in April 1942 to ‘Camp Harmony,’ a temporary internment camp in Puyallup, Washington. Her family was then moved to Minidoka War Relocation Center in Hunt, Idaho where they resided from September ‘42 – December ‘44. Minidoka was one of 10 internment camps built in desert areas of the U.S. in the wake of Imperial Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor. Jean and her husband currently reside in Carmel, Indiana.
http://www.shelbycountyreads.org/
Comments Off
Email Newsletter SignUp...
