Digital Museum of the History of Japanese in New York

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Witness and Memory: A-Bomb and WWII Testimonies in New York

WITNESS AND MEMORY A-Bomb and WWII Testimonies in New York This exhibit brings together the voices of Japanese and Japanese American individuals whose lives were forever altered by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan and by the broader experience of World War II as residents of New York. Some were survivors of the a-bombs, or  hibakusha, who later made their way to the United States. Others experienced growing up in the internment camps and migrating to the east coast. All joined the Japanese diaspora in New York and New Jersey and have carried those histories forward. Each story shared here is a personal one, shaped by war, […]