Sumi Tanabe of San Jose was just 4 years old when her family was forced to leave their California home to live in an internment camp in Arizona. 'For me personally, it was a psychological damage that was done to us children,' she said.
Walking through the streets of San Jose's Japantown, people held tea lights to bring light to a time when 120,000 Japanese Americans were forced to live in internment camps. Those in attendance gathered to remember the past injustices and to unite to prevent them from happening again.
Sumi Tanabe of San Jose was just 4 years old when her family was forced to leave their California home to live in an internment camp in Arizona for three years. "For me personally, it was a psychological damage that was done to us children," Tanabe said."We were made to feel guilty for something we did not do just because of our ancestry and because of racism."Sign up for NBC Bay Area’s Housing Deconstructed newsletter.Satomi Susie Yasui of San Jose also lived in an internment camp in Arizona at age 4, a time when she was supposed to be hospitalized receiving critical care for a bone disorder.
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