Photos: Lewis County Historical Museum hosts memorial day 80 years after Japanese Americans were internment
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Peter Lahmann reads the names of members of the Japanese-American community who boarded a train bound for the War Relocation Authority internment camp. A Remembrance Day event was held Saturday afternoon at the Lewis County Historical Museum in Chehalis. Fifty-three Japanese Americans departed the Chehalis Railroad Depot on Tuesday, June 2, 1942, on a train bound for Tule Lake, Calif., to be held at a “Japanese Assembly Center.” The 53 Americans were the entire Japanese-born population of Lewis County, including the American-born and foreign-born population. Lewis County residents were joined by 47 Japanese Americans from Pacific County.
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Historical Museum in Chehalis, with 86 names of those who boarded a train bound for a War Relocation Authority internment camp.” id=”photo_225318″ class=”content-photo”/>A ‘tribute to our neighbours’ is on display at the Lewis County Historical Museum in Chehalis, with 86 names of those who boarded a train bound for a War Relocation Authority internment camp.
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County Historical Museum.” id=”photo_225319″ class=”content-photo”/>An interactive exhibit from the Japanese American Museum of Oregon is on display at the Lewis County Historical Museum.
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‘Instructions to all people of Japanese ancestry’, hung on a mall inside the Lewis County Historical Museum during a Remembrance Day event.
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Signs are displayed next to vintage military vehicles at the Lewis County Historical Museum in Chehalis during a Japanese American internment remembrance.
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County Historical Museum in Chehalis, with 86 names of those who boarded a train bound for a War Relocation Authority internment camp.” id=”photo_225322″ class=”content-photo”/>A ‘tribute to our neighbours’ is on display at the Lewis County Historical Museum in Chehalis, with 86 names of those who boarded a train bound for a War Relocation Authority internment camp.
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Scott Harriage takes a picture of Lawrence Sandlin wearing an early WWII outfit at the Lewis County Historical Museum in Chehalis.
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